Rising National Tensions 1850-1860. 2 Abolitionism Spread in North Frederick Douglass: runaway slave who became abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison:
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The Union in Peril. Conflict Over Status of Territories Wilmot Proviso (1846) fails to ban slavery from newly acquired Mexican territories Free Soil.