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Example sentences for "slavery sentiment"

  • The failure of the two great political parties to act led to the first political organization of the anti-slavery sentiment.

  • The agitation connected with the Missouri question brought about the formation of a stronger anti-slavery sentiment in the North, and a group of fearless men sprang up to devote their lives and energies to an Abolition movement.

  • This object is already realized to the extent of a thorough anti-slavery sentiment in Great Britain, as poor Andrew Stevenson, for whom you apologise, can testify.

  • The Northern Abolitionists and Their Reactionary Influence upon Anti-Slavery Sentiment in Virginia 51 X.

  • Nevertheless he realized the growing strength of anti-slavery sentiment in the war and fully sympathized with it where actual realization did not conflict with the one great object of his administration.

  • The convention represented a genuine anti-slavery sentiment, and amid excitement and enthusiasm Martin Van Buren was nominated for President, and Charles Francis Adams for Vice-President.

  • The consecration of the territory of the United States to freedom became from that day a rallying cry for every shade of anti-slavery sentiment.

  • In its very first effort, without compact organization, without discipline, it rallied the anti-slavery sentiment so successfully as to carry nearly all the free States and to secure a plurality of the members of the House of Representatives.

  • There was indeed enough anti-slavery sentiment, stirred by the 7th of March speech and the Fugitive Slave law, to change the balance of power in Massachusetts politics.

  • Further, there was a distinct wave of anti-slavery sentiment, sympathetic with the lofty temper of the Revolution and the genesis of a free nation.

  • Thus the anti-slavery sentiment gave to the foremost state of the Southern Confederacy its singularly earnest and efficient war governor.

  • Still more effective in breeding a "thick and thin" pro-slavery sentiment at the South were the aggressive measures taken at the North for the annoyance of those who held slaves.

  • But side by side with this anti-slavery sentiment in the South, there grew up a pro-slavery sentiment which was buttressed by every impulse of gain that it is possible for the human mind to conceive.

  • The plan for polling the anti-slavery sentiment of the State worked admirably.

  • The great body of the anti-slavery sentiment in Great Britain promptly condemned the spirit and object of the American Colonization Society.

  • The marshaling of the anti-slavery sentiment of New England under a common standard, in a common cause, was a master stroke of moral generalship.

  • Mr. Douglas has no sympathy with the anti-slavery sentiment of the free States, but plants himself upon his principle, and puts slavery and freedom upon the same footing.

  • The anti-slavery sentiment of which these were the signs was nevertheless confined to narrow circles and bore no trace of bitterness.

  • By 1818 slavery had become so entrenched and the anti-slavery sentiment so strong, that Missouri's quest for admission brought both houses of Congress into a deadlock that was broken only by compromise.

  • What did escape him was the almost religious depth of the anti-slavery sentiment in that very stock from which he himself had sprung.

  • The strong anti-slavery sentiment of the community had been outraged by the Fugitive Slave Law.

  • The village of Kalamazoo had long been a center of anti-slavery sentiment, and the agitation against the pending bill had been especially vigorous there and in the surrounding counties.

  • The anti-slavery sentiment of that era was partly derived from the radical influence of the French revolution, the mad frenzies of which fearful convulsion, the fanatics of the North may yet repeat in the Western hemisphere.

  • The pro-slavery sentiment is of recent development.

  • The Congressional discussion of the slavery question aroused the anti-slavery sentiment of the North, which found expression in large and earnest meetings, in pungent editorials, and numerous memorials.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    consume them; democratic people; disease germs; fair knight; final decision; much knowledge; proved himself; second cousin; shall meet; sheep and; slavery abolished; slavery agitation; slavery cause; slavery conflict; slavery days; slavery friends; slavery itself; slavery meeting; slavery principles; slavery sentiment; slavery societies; slavery time; slavery times; slavery will; turmeric paper; uniform standard