Current Events > Why didn't the north rebel?

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Every president up to Abraham Lincoln was a slave owner or slavery supporter, but never once did the North worry about the south bringing slavery to the rest of the USA.

Meanwhile a single anti-slavery president gets elected and everyone in the south suddenly went apeshit.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Abolition was something some Northern states had wanted since the first Constitutional Convention in 1787. It got tabled because it was so contentious it threatened to break up the Convention. Later the topic came up again when they were hammering out the details of slaves and representation. This all ended with the 3/5th compromise.
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Just off the top of my head, I would say that there was no fear of slavery being imposed upon the northern states, whereas the South (fairly or otherwise) worried the practice would be abolished.

Also, just from a materialist view: the South stood to lose a lot of its wealth if slavery were abolished. It was a moral issue for many northerners, but it never hit them in the pocketbook (and in fact they benefited from southern slavery).
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hollow_shrine posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

Abolition was something some Northern states had wanted since the first Constitutional Convention in 1787. It got tabled because it was so contentious it threatened to break up the Convention. Later the topic came up again when they were hammering out the details of slaves and representation. This all ended with the 3/5th compromise.

No the 3/5th compromise was purely for taxes, the North had already conceded to allow slavery to continue existing in the south at that point.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

hollow_shrine posted...

ChromaticAngel posted...

Abolition was something some Northern states had wanted since the first Constitutional Convention in 1787. It got tabled because it was so contentious it threatened to break up the Convention. Later the topic came up again when they were hammering out the details of slaves and representation. This all ended with the 3/5th compromise.

No the 3/5th compromise was purely for taxes, the North had already conceded to allow slavery to continue existing in the south at that point.

Taxation and representation.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

- From the first article of the United States constitution.
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