000.000 for ceding its claim to New Mexico, thereby allowing it to pay its debts; and Utah would be given territorial status. (175).
But President Clay died in July 9, 1850 and Vice-president Millard Fillmore took measures that delayed the War but also created some differences between northern and southern countries. Northern states wanted to keep the Union, and the Southern states need to maintain their semi-feudal economic system (Catton 189). Several slaves run away from the southern states to the north (the Union states and Canada). It was illegal and some of them passed through horrifying conditions: "In the early part of June, there were, some days, as many as ten deaths reported at this place in twenty-four hours" (Jacobs 174). In spite of that fact, some of them, such as Mary Ann Shadd, (who would be recruiting black people for the Civil War) reached freedom. The war was a fact.
Indeed, in 1861 southern states established a government separated from the Union and offered to President Lincoln a pay for the territories and a peace treaty, but Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederate States as a country and declared disunion as treason. Thus, the American Civil War begun. Until 1863 there existed equilibrium between the Union and the Confederate forces, but Abraham Lincoln wrote a proclamation that named all slaves free. Thus, as the Union advanced into the Confederacy, slaves gained freedom. Since the beginning of the war, both sides had been creating propaganda in order to recruit people for the army. Although propaganda usually is not an interest issue, I find interest the fact that highlight Field's work: "they emphasized a theme that resonated as well with the world of non-slaveholders as with that of planters, even though the two worlds differed as night from day. 'We will never be slaves' was good secessionist propaganda" (111). As we can see in the Cultural Studies of the United States of America's notes, Lincoln allowed slaves to take part in the war: "la Unión había reclutado a dos millones de hombres, entre los que se encontraban unos 186.
