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“What was developing in the South was a coercive labor system, which although not slavery, was not free labor either. It depended on extralegal…

— Richard White

“In the 1800s, the United States was divided over the issue of slavery. The North wanted the country to end all slavery. But the…

— Mary Pope Osborne

“North-South imbalances and the exploitation of men and raw materials, combined with the resignation of the peoples of the North, produce a much more…

— Tariq Ramadan

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows…

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which…

— John C. Calhoun

“Having preserved the Union and saved white workers from competing with slave labor, the North could magnanimously acquiesce to such Confederate meretriciousness and the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“after the Civil War both parties now were controlled by capitalists. They were divided along North-South lines, still hung over with the animosities of…

— Howard Zinn

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their…

— Woodrow Wilson

“I felt entangled now: this March, this South, this war, history. History could not possibly let the South get away with slavery; history would…

— Cynthia Bass

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves,…

— Daniel Webster