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The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement

The Creation of a Crusader: Senator Thomas Morris and the Birth of the Antislavery Movement In-Person

Morris was the first member of the US Senate to defend abolitionist positions in that body. Confronted with Southern demands for Congressional action to silence abolitionists and endorse slavery, he asserted that a proslavery interpretation of the Constitution was a distortion of the text. Instead, he argued, the Constitution neither identified people as property nor granted Congress the power to establish slavery in the territories or the District of Columbia. Although far outside the 1830s political consensus, Morris’s ideas were quickly adopted by the nascent antislavery movement and became the cornerstone of antislavery political beliefs.

Date:
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Time:
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Library Program Room
Sandusky Library:
Sandusky Library
Audience:
  Adults     All Ages  
Categories:
  Adult Program     All Ages  

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