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Puritans refused to hold enslaved people; Quakers and Mennonites condemned slavery
Copperheads, who were mostly Democrats. They just opposed the war, and not necessarily the issue of slavery.
A large amount of America's Christians and Quakers lived in the North in the past and were against slavery and abuses because of ethics.
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The Republicans.
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Puritans refused to hold enslaved people; Quakers and Mennonites condemned slavery
The republican party was established by those who were opposed to slavery.
The Whig Party, which ran its last candidate for president in 1852. The Republican Party was formed in 1854, and soon supplanted the Whigs.
The Whig Party
The Whigs and Democrats avoided and evaded the issue of slavery in the election of 1848 by splitting down the middle on who was for and who was against slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the South wanted to keep slavery. Whigs and Democrats in the North wanted to abolish slavery.
no it wasnt because the Northern Whigs joined with other opponents of slavery.and the north was against slavery yes they were against slavery the democrats were for it
The Democratic party split in 1860 over slavery, in particular the question of whether it would be allowed in the new states that might join the union.
i think that they were afraid of nanny