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than the South, as a concentrated power?
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Free labor ideology was also rooted in this kind
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of now old-fashioned American fear
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of conspiracy against individual liberty.
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Free labor ideology was really a fanfare for the common man,
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a defense of the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant small farmer.
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And, of course,
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finally there were some real abolitionists around,
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who opposed the expansion of slavery on moral grounds.
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And sometimes that person who believes in free labor ideology
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and may not want to many black folks around,
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also takes a kind of moral position against slavery,