The 1850 Fugitive slave act-The First US Police State.

[hunboldt]

Fugitive slave laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've been fascinated by the events that lead to the US Civil war. The 1850 act was the first 'mass civil disobedience' event in the USA.
It turned into a fiasco, with Pres. Fillmore threatening to 'invade various Northern States'.

My contention is that was a 'good thing' - as it aroused public opinion in the North against Southern Slavery.

 

[petros]

Slavery never was the primary issue in the Civil War.

 

[#juan]

Slavery never was the primary issue in the Civil War.

It wasn't the only issue but it was important. Lincoln was seen as pro-north and in favor of abollition. Seven states had already suceeded from the union when Lincoln was elected. Lots of rich plantation owners needed all that free labour to stay rich. Hell, blame the war on Ely Whitney and his cotton gin.

Top Five Causes of the Civil War

 

[B00Mer]

I wish it was 1850 again... or 1950..

Take your pick, the wild west and dead at 65 yrs of age, or the Leave it to Beaver.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I wish it was 1850 again... or 1950..

Take your pick, the wild west and dead at 65 yrs of age, or the Leave it to Beaver.

Jim Crow.

 

[hunboldt]

Slavery never was the primary issue in the Civil War.

One big factor was the abuse of 'bounty hunting' by the Southern States on free and Escaped Negroes in the North, which really antagonised Northerners. HUGE mistake.

Fillmore gets rather unfairly maligned- a myopic president who did the 'right thing' the wrong way..

Millard Fillmore |Barton A. Myers. Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and
Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865.
Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Series.
Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 2011. 193 pp. $18.95
(paper), ISBN 978-0-8071-4362-9; $32.50 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-8071-3475-7.

Reviewed by Derek W. Frisby (Middle Tennessee State University)
Published on H-NC (August, 2013)
Commissioned by Judkin J. Browning

Barton A. Myers's _Executing Daniel Bright_ is a concise yet complex
study of a coastal Carolina community's tribulations during the Civil
War. While many others have chronicled similar struggles in countless
communities across the South, Pasquotank County, North Carolina,
appears as an exceptional example of the importance of location and
its effect on the political, social, and military events that led to
a rather unremarkable yet signature event, the execution of Daniel
Bright.

Myers examines the political and social climate within Pasquotank and
details how the polarizing effects of guerrilla violence and federal
occupation ratcheted up the levels of violence and muddled the
allegiances of the citizenry. In the aftermath of the secession
crisis, many in this county sided with the Confederacy, yet Myers
describes "two shades" of Confederate sympathizers composing a "class
alliance" made possible by the ties binding the South's social and
economic slave society (p. 32). Among the Pasquotank Confederates
were a small The White House

 

[hunboldt]

It wasn't the only issue but it was important. Lincoln was seen as pro-north and in favor of abollition. Seven states had already suceeded from the union when Lincoln was elected. Lots of rich plantation owners needed all that free labour to stay rich. Hell, blame the war on Ely Whitney and his cotton gin.

Top Five Causes of the Civil War

Good post.
Pierce and Buchanan are where things 'really fall apart'


Franklin Pierce | The White House

BTW Walter, are we answering your 'why' question?:lol: