... civil liberty – criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest" (Gienapp, 29). On top of that the Dred Scott decision in 1857 when the court decided that slaves were property and did not the liberty of being a citizen, resulted in Congress possessing no authority to prohibit slavery on federal ... ...

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... his way of settling on stage and off, accusing him of being an ''Uncle Tom'' (main character of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin in which the story of a good slave is told that despite the many misfortunes that happen, he accepts his fate and its situation in relation to white people) and to not leading on their ... ...

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• Grade Level: Graduate