Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution

Slavery and the Roots of the Secession Crisis (1x6)

Fecha de emisión: Mar 01, 2022

Contrary to the Founders’ guiding principle of equality and their hopes for eventual abolition, slavery not only survived but spread and became entrenched in the South. Subsequently, a new ideology arose in defense of slavery, which rejected the principles of the Founding and fueled the sectional crisis that led to the Civil War.