... and by limiting its expansion, it would leave the federal territories as a "whites-only preserve", although another argument from Lincoln is that it threatened to limit opportunity of free white labor which was also delivered in his Coopers Union Speech. His thoughts on race did influence the expansion of slavery into the territories, however at the end of the ... territories. This act replaced the 36' 30' Line from the Missouri Compromise of 1820, to the idea that popular sovereignty could be decided into which state would come in as a free state or a slave state. This ended the contai...

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... of dismantling white supremacy, where peoples of color join together in support of that common cause. Early coalitions, generally disregarded in the broad view of history, established by enslaved Africans, free Africans, and Native Americans, helped to combat the Eurocentric stereotypes internalized by Native and African Americans. In attempting to include whites in such a coalition, it would be necessary for whites ... ...

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