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There had been growing all over the north, especially in the minds of religious people, a conviction that slavery was wrong.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “There had been growing all over the north, especially in the minds of religious people, a conviction that slavery was…”
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Sherman notes a growing moral conviction in the North against slavery, particularly among religious groups.
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