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Northerners Disillusion With Slavery
Northerners who might have been unwilling to go to war over the slavery in the South, were placed in a difficult situation by the requirement that they capture Blacks who had escaped bondage and return them to their former slave-holders. This put Northerners directly in collusion with slavery, and they couldn't live with

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