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The notion that people opposed slavery in CA because it could led to slaves running away and amassing wealth is one of those things that undermines everything you learn in high school history. It seems that we are given this idea that people strongly opposed slavery because it was wrong and they had strong abolitionist ties, which is not the case here. It makes me wonder how many people really opposed slavery for moral reasons and how many opposed it because it interferred with their interests? -Melissa Brokaw | The notion that people opposed slavery in CA because it could led to slaves running away and amassing wealth is one of those things that undermines everything you learn in high school history. It seems that we are given this idea that people strongly opposed slavery because it was wrong and they had strong abolitionist ties, which is not the case here. It makes me wonder how many people really opposed slavery for moral reasons and how many opposed it because it interferred with their interests? -Melissa Brokaw | ||
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| + | I was wondering what exactly the "American Fork" was? Also it is interesting how bitter Colton seems to be about the good fortune of commoners who prosper from the gold rush. Was it common for a man in the west at this time to have such a traditional view of how society should be arranged, i.e.: "the master and servant" idea that he mentions?--Helen Dinndorf | ||
== Eliza Farnham, A Farmer’s view of his wife, 1846 == | == Eliza Farnham, A Farmer’s view of his wife, 1846 == | ||
