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The political idealism of the Revolution also encouraged, and sometimes forced, white slave owners to liberate their slaves.
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)
Protecting slavery, Lincoln declared, had become the chief irritant that provoked the Southern states to reach for the solution of disunion.
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)
[R]eligious commitment formed the backbone of much of the North's hostility to slavery.
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)
Slaves who ran away in Pennsylvania to join Sir William Howe's occupation of Philadelphia or who ran away in Virginia to join Lord Dumore's "Ethiopian Regiment" found themselves dumped by their erstwhile allies in Nova Scotia or sold back into slavery in the Bahamas.
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)
It thus became vital to the peace of the planters' minds that the frustrations of the "crackers," "sandhillers," or "poor white trash" be diminished or placated at all costs. This involved, first and foremost, keeping the bogeyman of race ever before the nonslaveholders' eyes, for whatever hatreds the poor whites nursed against the planters, they nursed still greater ones against blacks.
Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012)