| Southern slaveholders saw homesteaders as antislavery advocates, and so they too blocked homestead legislation. |
| It brought together antislavery sectionalists and other northern dissenters from the old party system. |
| Certainly, the Wesley Connection of Methodists took an overtly antislavery position. |
| If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough. |
| The antislavery crusade, beginning in England in the second half of the eighteenth century, thus emerges as a singular, epoch-making event. |
| It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U. S. history. |
