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At the same time slave-state politicians were loudly demanding a tough new fugitive slave law to stanch the northward hemorrhage of black freedom-seekers.

Tough Job, Wrong Man Fergus M. Bordewich 2011

Thus, though Adams waged various battles against slavery and the power of slave-state politicians, he was not a tireless, lifelong opponent of slavery, as Rep. Bachmann claims.

R. B. Bernstein: Will the Real John Quincy Adams Please Stand Up? R. B. Bernstein 2011

Giving them the same two votes in the Senate was part of the intricate compromise over regional, economic, and slave-state/free-state interests that went into the Constitution.

How America Can Rise Again 2010

Surely if Germany could start with the wreckage of a communist slave-state and make itself into the most dynamic developed economy in the world, its template could transform sluggish and over-indebted economies like Italy and Spain.

Europe's Supply-Side Revolution Donald L. Luskin 2012

He had organized his political career around finding the ideal compromise between the slave-state fire-eaters, who were willing to split the Union to protect their way of life, and those who saw slavery as America's shame.

Fight, Vote, Fight Arthur Herman 2010

The question that sizzled as Lincoln prepared to give his first inaugural address--would these moderate states, in case of war, turn the weapons of the United States against their Southern slave-state brethren?

Dennis Frye: By the end of February, 1861, federal forts, arsenals. post offices and court houses in the Deep South had been seized by Confederate troops; how much did this help the South in its war effort and how much did the loss hurt the North? 2011

Giving them the same two votes in the Senate was part of the intricate compromise over regional, economic, and slave-state/free-state interests that went into the Constitution.

How America Can Rise Again 2010

Certainly France and other nations have tried to punish Haiti over the centuries for having the audacity to become the world's first free slave-state, but it is primarily Haiti's own leadership that has doomed her citizens.

Jim Luce: Haitian Leadership Mentoring Program for Orphans Growing in Leogane 2010

Certainly France and other nations have tried to punish Haiti over the centuries for having the audacity to become the world's first free slave-state, but it is primarily Haiti's own leadership that has doomed her citizens.

Jim Luce: Haitian Leadership Mentoring Program for Orphans Growing in Leogane 2010

From the historical perspective, this region is transfiguring itself from a healthy rural community with an effective democracy into slave-state based on prisoners.

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