Tag: Fugitive Slave Law
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Did Secession Hasten the End of Slavery?
“ANOTHER POLITICAL MANEUVER” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 31, 2016) — *Author’s note: There is a question which deserves much more attention than it receives: Considering Lincoln was willing to make slavery perpetual and to remove it from even congressional action with the Corwin Amendment in order to “preserve the…
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Should Secession Be Given Credit for Ending Chattel Slavery in America?
“A MILITARY INVASION” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jan. 12, 2016) — (Author’s note: A question that has not been addressed but should be is this: had 7 Southern states not seceded in late 1860 and early 1861 and brought about the threat of economic chaos in the North, a North…