| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Westward expansion and the settlement of new lands only fueled the growing debate over slavery.By the 1830s, many southerners who had once defended slavery as a ???necessary evil??? now asserted that it was a ???positive good.??? An increasing number of abolitionists, on the other hand, came to believe that slavery was a grave sin and an evil institution that should be ended immediately.
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