Issues of Slavery
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written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book presented a powerful moral indictment of the law - and of slavery as an institution. Compromise of 1850 - addressed all the major controversies between the two sections. California, he proposed, should be admitted as a free state, which represented the clear wishes of most settlers there. The rest of the Mexican cession would be organized as two territories, New Mexico and Utah, under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book presented a powerful moral indictment of the law - and of slavery as an institution. Compromise of 1850 - addressed all the major controversies between the two sections. California, he proposed, should be admitted as a free state, which represented the clear wishes of most settlers there. The rest of the Mexican cession would be organized as two territories, New Mexico and Utah, under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.