Prior to the Civil War and the approval of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a great debate began among abolitionists and those who wanted to preserve slavery. This political debate on slavery was highly centered around the newly acquired territories, and if slavery should be permitted there. Abolitionists used political and moral arguments to counteract the case made by their pro-slavery counterparts and work to keep this territories slave free. In the Declaration of Independence, it is declared that “all men are created equal”, but in a country shaped to give people freedom, many lived in oppression. Samuel Warner, in his essay on Nat Tuner’s Insurrection, was right to question, “But do we mean by the term ALL MEN, to be understood
