History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1700 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Planter Power in Washington
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The idea
Seven of the first eleven presidents were enslavers.
In practice
More than half of Supreme Court justices from the Court's inception through the Civil War coming from slaveholding states.
Where people slip
A minority section held a durable majority in two branches of the federal government, which is what the free states eventually organised against.
Your place on the trail
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