The fact that slavery became so widespread became a huge conflict between the northern and southern states.
North: Abolitionist
President Abraham Lincoln: "I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down, and caught, and carried back to their stripes, and unrewarded toils" |
South: Pro-Slavery
Politician James H. Hammond: "They are ours by all the laws of nature; slave-labor will go over every foot of this great valley" |