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Africans in America Part 4B - Judgment Day (1831-1865) - 39:06 - Dec 16, 2008

Posted by Metric Clay on August 28, 2009 at 9:44am

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As westward expansion took hold, the question of whether the United States would be a proslavery or antislavery nation took on new importance. In the North, antislavery forces included abolitionists, who wanted a future without slavery so that black people could be free, and Free Soil advocates, who resented having to compete with owners of slave-tended plantations for use of new lands. White Southern planters wanted a future for themselves and their prosperous way of life, which depended on the institution of slavery

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