LARGE POPULATION FACTORIES CITIES IMMIGRANTS
ARGROCULTURAL PLANTATIONS “KING COTTON” “THE COTTON KINGDOM” MORE LAND, MORE SLAVES 50% OF ALL EXPORTS (1840)
SLAVES LIVED IN FAMILY UNITS = CHILDREN COMMINUTY ENCOURAGE = LESS REBELLION
EXTREMELY VALUABLE $1,200 GOOD MEDICAL TREATMENT MOST WORKED IN COTTON FIELDS (10-12 HOURS A DAY) SLAVE CODES NO FREEDOM – SOLD – BROKEN FAMILIES – PUNISHED – NO LAST NAME – HARD WORK – NO CULTURE
ABOLITION: TO END SLAVERY NO SLAVES IN NORTH AFTER 1800 QUAKERS IN P.A. START CAMPAIGN AGAINST SLAVERY
FORMS ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY WRITES “THE LIBERATOR” FREE THE SLAVES BY “WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY!” NO PLAN NEEDED JUST FREE THEM NOW!
FORMER SLAVE MAKES A STRONG IMPRESSION ABOUT HIS LIFE TOURS THE NORTH LECTURING
HELP SLAVES ESCAPE TO CANADA
PROBLEMS WITH SLAVERY NORTH CONTROLS THE HOUSE SENATE = NORTH (11), SOUTH (11) MISSOURI WANTS TO BE ADMITTED AS A SLAVE STATE THIS WOULD UPSET THE BALANCE IN THE SENATE!
DEBATED IN CONGRESS TALLMADGE: NO SLAVERY IN LA PURCHASE-CONGRESS EXPLODES CLAY COMPROMISES: MISSOURI & MAINE + 36’ 30” LINE
LOYALTY TO ONE’S STATE OR SECTION RATHER THAN THE ENTIRE NATION SOUTH SEES NORTH AS A THREAT TO THEIR WAY OF LIFE NORTH SEES SOUTH AS ALMOST LIKE ANOTHER COUNTRY -ABOLITION MOVEMENT IS GROWING
SUGGESTED BANNING SLAVERY IN THE NEW TERRITORIES MISSOURI COMPROMISE ONLY APPLIES TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE MANY NORTHERNERS OPPOSED MEXICAN WAR – SOUTH WANTS TO SPREAD SLAVERY PASSES IN HOUSE – FAILS IN SENATE DAVID WILMONT (PA)
SOME SAY MISSOURI COMPROMISE SHOULD BE EXTENED WEST OTHERS CALL FOR POPULAR SOVERNIGNTY: PEOPLE IN THE TERRITORY WILL VOTE TO DECIDE IF THEY WILL BE A SLAVE OR A FREE STATE
POLITICAL PARTY FOUNDED IN 1848 – KEEP SLAVERY OUT OF MEXICAN CESSION – BELIEVED IN WILMONT PROVISO “FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LAND, FREE MEN” FEDREAL AID FOR INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS – FREE LAND
POLK DOES NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION LEWIS CASS DEMOCRAT POPULAR SOVERNIGNTY ZACHARY TAYLOR WHIG NO PLATFORM: WAR HERO FREE SOIL MARTIN VAN BUREN
WHIG TAYLOR WAR HERO CASS DEMOCRAT
DID NOT KNOW REALLY HOW TO BE PRESIDENT NO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE, OR SOPHISTICATION COMMON, ORDINARY, WARMHEARTED