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in the 1850s during all this expansion,
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it comes very early.
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But a framework in which to understand
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it is that pro-slavery ideology was, at its heart,
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a kind of deeply conservative, organic worldview.
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And by that I mean a Burkean conservatism,
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a set of beliefs that says the world
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is ordered as it is, for reasons,
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and that human beings ought not tinker with that order, very much.
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It was a set of beliefs in the sustenance
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of a social order as it is.
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It was a belief in a hierarchical conception