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Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2023) 96 (1): 8–26.
Published: 01 March 2023
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The abolition of slavery in the northern states, generally viewed as a grudging and conservative series of reforms, had a radical core. By negating the chattel principle at its weakest link, abolitionists destroyed the main proslavery contentions and paved the way for the first abolition laws like them in history.