Sentence examples for spread of slavery from inspiring English sources

The Liberty Party opposed the spread of slavery.

It was his first public speech opposing the spread of slavery.

In 1848 he joined the Free-Soil movement against the spread of slavery.

Lincoln's speech, arguing against the spread of slavery, transformed him into a legitimate presidential contender.

That's how you hear about a man named Abraham Lincoln, who is against the spread of slavery.

Its immediate purpose was to arrest the spread of slavery and, as he put it, to unseat the "privileged class" — Southern slaveholders, who still dominated the government.

"I want Tamaulipas, Potosi, and one or two other Mexican states; and I want them all for the same reason for the planting and spreading of slavery".

During the 1850s, Bingham tried to stymie the efforts of Jackson and other Missourians to interfere in Kansas Territory in the name of spreading slavery.

Sometimes reviving the old arguments of Polk's political foes, contemporary historians describe the war as a shameful act of imperialist plunder, ginned up by the president himself, with the not-so-hidden intention of spreading slavery into new lands.

Indeed, before 1861 the only step the Republicans advocated to speed the demise of slavery was restricting its spread into the territories.

We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare.