... issue brought on the Civil War. One-third believed slavery could expand and half of this one-third thought slavery could and should expand and that it was good and needed; the other half thought that it should not expand and President Lincoln thought slavery was a malignancy that should be contained. (Hume, Video Lectures 3 & 6) Considering the timing of the conflict in the theory of the Civil War, the breakdown in the two-party ... it an explosive issue. McPherson states, "Few white men questioned the morality of black slavery before the eighteenth century. Bondage was the most ancient...

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