HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Guerrilla Warfare, Fugitive Slave Laws
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Bits of overlap from the mexican american war and the civil war: wilmot proviso, slave power conspiracy, free labor ideology. Inner circle northern republicans that were politically against slavery. Middle circle northern democrats that supported the wilmot proviso. Thought slavery was a poison to the country, and did not want to expand slavery. Outer circle opposed sla(cid:448)ery, (cid:271)ut did(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e it (cid:449)as a (cid:272)ru(cid:272)ial issue i(cid:374) the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try. Core principles wage labor was more efficient that slave labor. Thing they would not compromise on: the slavery had to be kept out of the territories. Southern political leadership tries to defend the institution of slavery because of these ideas. They (cid:271)egi(cid:374) to (cid:272)all sla(cid:448)ery i(cid:374) the south a (cid:862)positi(cid:448)e good. (cid:863) they (cid:272)all sla(cid:448)ery a great so(cid:272)ial a(cid:374)d politi(cid:272)al blessing for white slave holder and slaves. The southerners try to reverse precedents that limited the expansion of slavery, like the missouri compromise that stopped slavery from spreading about the 36-
