Caroline Janney
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first heard Apr 2026
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And so there's that part, too, that gets buried and not celebrated, the story of the United States Colored Troops.
the debates that were occurring during the Constitutional Convention about slavery and whether or not slavery would continue to exist and what representation would look like in Congress, those had been settled or at least compromised enough during the Constitutional Convention.
But the issue comes up again in 1820, and the persistent issue for the United States is going to be westward expansion and the role that slavery will play in western expansion.
Missouri comes up and it's going to come in as a slave-holding state.
It's going to tip the balance in favor of slaveholders in Congress.
And this is something that the free states to the north just cannot abide.
And then there's a line drawn across the country that says slavery cannot exist above this line.
And that's gonna hold true until we get to the war with Mexico.
And the war with Mexico is going to be that precipitous moment.
So this is 1846 to 1848.
And when the United States takes from Mexico this huge chunk of land, now the question of whether slavery will be allowed in that territory is on the table again.
homes are destroyed families driven out and towns like lawrence founded by anti-slavery settlers are looted and set alight between 1854 and 1859 out in kansas there's blood that's being spilled somewhere between 50 and 200 people are killed over the question of slavery in the territories
The notion that the Fugitive Slave Act makes anyone who so much as gives a cup of water to an enslaved person who has managed to escape, makes them culpable.
This is what is going to really drive animosity and the split in the country.
The Dred Scott decision is a Supreme Court decision that talks about whether or not you can take an enslaved person into a free territory and that person would still be a slave.
And the decision says that, yes, you can take your enslaved property into a free territory or state, Wisconsin in this case, and they remain enslaved.
He had this grand plan to seize the arsenal, the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry and gather a band of enslaved people and march into Virginia and be a band of liberation.
And this is what stokes and galvanizes a lot of attention.
And this is when we start hearing more war cries from the slaveholding states.
Militias start drilling again, men coming together and preparing for war.
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