Uncle Tom's Cabin Throughout the colonial period and after American Revolution, most Americans accepted slavery as a normal and inevitable aspect of their affairs. It became more and more confined, as a working institution, to the southern states. In the North West the pressure for free land was greatest, especially during ... opposed to free land, fearing that it would upset the balance between the number of free and slave states. Slavery in South America was closely connected to race. Although there were back, mulatto, and American-born slave owners, many whites did not own slaves; chaffel ...

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