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Slavery: A narrative
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Before 1830 - The South defended slavery as a necessary evil. They argued that the emergence of cotton as the most important cash crop in the country made slaves necessary.
Clearly southern represenatives would take any position that defended slavery and their general economic condition. The defended nullification, opposed tariffs and worked to get strict fugitive slave laws passed
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other fastens itself around your own." In saying so Emerson looks at the nature of bondage. By owning slaves one become a slave. Too take away anothers freedom is to take away your own freedom on many levels.
Jeffereson – Slavery was like holding a wolf by the ears, you didn’t
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