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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 219008" data-attributes="member: 9521"><p>If it wasn't about slavery, what was it about? It seems to me it was about the fear of slavery being limited only to the existing slavery states and not in the newly acquired territory gained from the Mex-American war. That, and the worry that transporting a slave across a free state could potentially cause that slave to be free, or in other words, a loss of personal "property" that the southern states felt was unconstitutional. I know a lot of people have tried to say it was "states rights" but I'm not sure what states rights were being violated or could have the potential to be violated? At no point did the North demand an end to slavery, those calls only came from the extreme elements and not the mainstream political elements.</p></blockquote><p></p>