History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1842 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why the North Resisted
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The idea
Northern anti-abolitionists feared that abolition would upend traditional Black and White and gender distinctions, destroying decency and order together.
In practice
The fear that ending slavery would flood the North with Black workers taking White jobs.
Where people slip
This is the same calculation Unit 09 entry 1255 records among northern wage workers, and it is economic as well as racial.
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