Question

Would it be right to

use violence to stop the slave states from leaving the country? [Why? Or, what does it
depend on?

Answer 1

Although it was the law of the land for more than 300 years, American slavery was challenged and resisted every day, by its victims, by its survivors, and by those who found it morally unacceptable. Slaveholders depended on involuntary labor to keep their businesses solvent. Many enslaved African Americans defied the slave system by leaving it. The form of resistance most feared by slaveholders, however, was violent insurrection.

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