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Deep Background Presents: The Broken Constitution Ep. 1

Deep Background with Noah Feldman

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The Crisis of the 18th Century

As a loyal son of the old northwest and of illinois, lincoln himself was not committed to slavery. But the world in which he lived and the economy of the people whom he eventually sought to represent as he entered politics, depended on the expansion of the country across the continent. And that expansion, in turn, was completely bound up in the expansion of slavery over the course of the 18 hundreds.

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