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He would print news items from the South that were proslavery and then critique them.

Some wartime radicals had been conservative Democrats before the war, often taking proslavery positions.

But he denies the charge of some historians that this made the Jacksonians a proslavery party.

She held strong pro-Confederacy, proslavery views and opposed women's suffrage.

The blacks celebrate the proslavery Confederates right alongside the whites.

Many Americans feared a national civil war if the convention could not satisfy both proslavery and antislavery forces.

Regrettably, compromise proved impossible because proslavery men dominated the convention.

Price was active in the proslavery wing of the Missouri Democratic Party.

Although still firmly proslavery, this group removed some of the earlier laws that their antislavery neighbors opposed.

Most free-state people refused to obey these laws because they had been passed by the proslavery territorial legislature.

Despite his efforts to be a neutral peacemaker, Geary and the proslavery legislature clashed.

Churches in the South were primarily proslavery, while northern churches started antislavery movements.

Although only 2,800 ballots were cast, it is likely the proslavery candidate would have been elected without the Missourians' voter fraud.

Price strongly supported the efforts of proslavery Missourians in Kansas, and he served as governor until 1857.

In August 1856, thousands of proslavery men formed into armies and marched into Kansas.

Osawatomie, near the Missouri border, was attacked and burned by proslavery forces on August 30, 1856.

Proslavery ideology arose in the antebellum United States.

Not only were they focussing on the racist rhetoric of the Society's members and publications, but some also depicted the Society as proslavery organization.

Phillips denied he was proslavery.

Proslavery pieties are layered over intimations of abolitionism.

Missouri was authorized to submit a proslavery constitution and Maine was admitted to the Union.

However, some authorities say that the totem pole was actually built by the proslavery Tlingit to shame Lincoln, not to honor him.

By 1855, antislavery immigrants began arriving in force to Kansas, and upon arrival they refused to acknowledge the fraudulently elected proslavery government.

In 1858 the assembly was moved from the proslavery capital of Lecompton to the free-state town of Lawrence.

In Kansas, a proslavery mob ransacked a free-state paper and tossed its press into the Missouri River.

It was these territorial disputes that the proslavery and antislavery forces collided over.

During the years of 1855 and 1856, tensions erupted into open warfare between proslavery and antislavery forces along the border.

Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South.

It was settled by prosouthern (today commonly, but incorrectly called proslavery) partisans in the turbulent days when Kansas was a territory.

The Proslavery men had attacked Valley Falls (then called Grasshopper Falls).

"The Proslavery Argument Revisited", The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol.

Tise, Larry E. Proslavery In The Confederacy edited by Richard N. Current.

Chesley A. Homan, From Antislavery to Proslavery: The Presidency and Resignation of Nathan Lord.

Bleeding Kansas (1854-59): battles erupt in Kansas Territory between proslavery and "Free-State" settlers, directly precipitating the American Civil War.

However, scholarly works such as The Southern Methodist Church and the Proslavery Argument, published in The Journal of Southern History, vol 32, No. 3.

Reinforcements led by Col. James A. Harvey arrived the next day, and the skirmish ended with 4 Proslavery men wounded, 1 killed, and 5 Free-State men injured.

The urgent question was, should it be admitted to the Union with the proslavery, ill-drafted constitution that an unrepresentative handful of extremists had cobbled together at Lecompton, Kan., late in the year?

Bonner, Robert E., "Proslavery Extremism Goes to War: The Counterrevolutionary Confederacy and Reactionary Militarism," Modern Intellectual History, 6 (August 2009), 261-85.

In 1856, James H. Lane, leader of a small band of Free-State men, besieged a group of Proslavery men in the log buildings near Dunavant at Hickory Point.

David Dowling, a critic who wrote for College Literature wrote the piece "Other and More Terrible Evils: Anticapitalist Rhetoric in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and Proslavery Propaganda".

Created by Eli Thayer in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed the population of Kansas Territory to choose whether slavery would be legal, the Company is noted less for its direct impact than for the psychological impact it had on proslavery and antislavery elements.