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  2. File:Thoughts on American slavery, and its proposed remedies ...

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  3. Hinton Rowan Helper - Wikipedia

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    Titled The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It and written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the Northern United States, it argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders and was an impediment to the economic growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the ...

  4. Sally (1764 ship) - Wikipedia

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    The legacy of The Sally and its involvement in the perpetuation of northern slavery is two-fold. First, the ship offers an example of both the atrocities of the middle passage, as well as the attempts of many captured Africans to assert their personhood long before abolition.

  5. Jubilee (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Jubilee is the semi-fictional story of Vyry Brown, based on the life of author Margaret Walker's great-grandmother, Margaret Duggans Ware Brown. Vyry Brown is a mixed-race slave—the unacknowledged daughter of her master—who is born on the Dutton plantation in Georgia.

  6. Ostend Manifesto - Wikipedia

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    The dispatch was published as demanded by the House of Representatives. Dubbed the "Ostend Manifesto", it was immediately denounced in both the Northern states and Europe. The Pierce administration suffered a significant setback, and the manifesto became a rallying cry for anti-slavery Northerners.

  7. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    The 1787 Constitutional Convention debated slavery, and for a time slavery was a major impediment to passage of the new constitution. As a compromise, slavery was acknowledged but never mentioned explicitly in the Constitution. The Fugitive Slave Clause, Article 4, section 2, clause 3, for example, refers to a "Person held to Service or Labor."

  8. The Impending Crisis of the South - Wikipedia

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    The book condemned slavery, but "not with reference, except in a very slight degree, to its humanitarian or religious aspects," which had already been dealt with at length by Northern writers. [ 1 ] : v Instead, Helper criticized slavery on economic grounds, appealing to whites' rational self-interest , rather than "any special friendliness or ...

  9. Slave Power - Wikipedia

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    [15] The idea that the Slave Power existed has partly come back at the hands of neoabolitionist historians since 1970, and there is no doubt that it was a powerful factor in the Northern anti-slavery belief system. It was standard rhetoric for all factions of the Republican Party.