It began to seem unreasonable to protect slavery while blockading Southern commerce and destroying Southern production.

South Carolina's delegates were determined to protect slavery, and they had a powerful impact on the final document.

While he believed the South had seceded to protect slavery, he had felt it was his patriotic duty to Virginia.

They wanted endorsement of Dred Scott and Congressional legislation protecting slavery in the territories.

That state's Yankee stock eventually migrated here as strong antislave Christians and abolitionists willing to break laws protecting slavery.

Laws protecting slavery or outlawing homosexuality, for instance, will over time form deviant roles connected with those behaviors.

Confederates fought to protect southern society, and slavery as an integral part of it.

In the fierce campaign, the Democrats argued that Know-Nothings could not protect slavery from Northern abolitionists.

Nullification was the most extreme assertion of states' rights - a constitutional theory whose fundamental purpose was to protect slavery against potential federal interference.

Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories?