When the 55 delegates of the Confederation came together in 1787 to record their ideas in the United States Constitution via consensus, the subject touching upon slavery in the States turned out to be the most debated point. ... Additionally, the framers recorded in Article V that neither the first nor the fourth article could be changed for another twenty years, securing the terms concerning slavery that the southern states had demanded. ... Today the sections of the Constitution concerning slavery are substituted by amendments abolishing slavery in our society. ...

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Kenneth Stampp says, "Nevertheless, whatever methodological or conceptual strategies a historian may devise, his search for answers to questions concerning slave behavior and personality must begin with the accumulation of a reasonable amount of empirical data.... Throughout the years, historians have debated, examined and tried to interpret the various ways of how slaves reacted to being a slave. ...

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In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. ... Lincoln, an Illinois nominee for the Senate seat, challenged his opposing candidate, Stephen Douglas, to a series of debates. ...

• Word Count: 1316
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In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. ... Lincoln, an Illinois nominee for the Senate seat, challenged his opposing candidate, Stephen Douglas, to a series of debates. ...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. ... Lincoln, an Illinois nominee for the Senate seat, challenged his opposing candidate, Stephen Douglas, to a series of debates. ...

• Word Count: 1330
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He also highlighted African-Americans' natural rights as a way to prevent the spread of slavery, and thereby save what he would later call "the last best hope of earth".1 In the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Lincoln highlights the importance of public opinion and the impact of opinion-makers. ... Proposed by Douglas and Lincoln's opponent in the influential of their debate, where the bill overturned the Missouri Compromise's use of latitude as the boundary between slave and free territory. ... Based on Young America's bias concerning the source of land and weal...

• Word Count: 2032
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate