Many books have been written on this subject, but I have chosen these two authors Kenneth M. ... Stampp and American Reconstruction 1865-1870 by George Clemenceau were chosen because I think they were written with undistorted views. ... Stampp is an expert in Civil War history and is the author of Indiana Politics during the Civil War, And the War Came, and The Peculiar Institution. He edited The Causes of the Civil War and was co-author of The American Experience. ... In earlier Reconstruction writings, a lot of authors suggested that the southerners were treated with brutality. ...

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Instead, it was documented that representatives chosen by misrepresented southern parliaments happened to be, and remained to be, firmly pro-slavery. ... Principally, the authors of the Constitution adjourned the dispute for about twenty years, in which the period for debating should improve. ...

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A newspaper author's retort to one particularly ferocious kidnapping spoke to how these performs insulted Mid-Atlantic whites' pride in living in the Free states. ... If snatching and the slave trade endangered Northerners' chosen remoteness from slavery in the Mid-Atlantic, numerous North westerners vexed that slavery itself would extend into their district. ...

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Introduction Many events of the 18th century impacted the abolition of Slavery. In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. It first started in the United States when Ch...

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