The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities
Franklin Repository, "Strike for Freedom," May 5, 1860

Summary

Republicans made clear that they planned to move the party into the South and to bring its opposition to slavery with it.

EXCERPT:

"The election of a Republican President would be the signal for the uprising of Republicanism in the South. The masses, who have been so long down-trodden by the Slave Oligarchy, would arise in their might and emancipate themselves from a bondage that is even worse than slavery of the body--the loss of their birth-right as American citizens."

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Points of Analysis to this Data:

"In the first half of 1860 Republican editors in Franklin's Repository and Transcript attacked slavery as a violation of nature that stole from the workingman the fruits of his labor; they focused mainly on slavery's potential to undermine free labor."


Citation: Key = E183
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