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iemanja

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8. It was called the Free Soil movement

Reply to CurtEastPoint (Reply #7)

Thu Oct 3, 2024, 09:35 PM

Oct 3

It wasn’t about abolition per se but making it so that white people could access land in areas that wouldn’t be surrounded by slaveholders. The party grew very quickly until Lincoln was elected Pres just a few years later. He only turned to abolitionism during the Civil War, in part due to the persuasion of Frederick Douglass.

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