How and why did attitudes toward slavery change in the aftermath of the Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Revolutionary fervor forced Americans to confront the contradiction between republican
principles and slavery.
2. During the revolutionary period, abolitionist sentiment spread.
3. African Americans were active in the early antislavery movement and made important
contributions.
4. Benjamin Banneker and Phillis Wheatley earned widespread acclaim for their accomplishments.
5. Economic factors, combined with the acknowledgment of the double standard slavery
represented, contributed to the establishment of antislavery societies in the North.
6. Northern states moved toward the abolition of slavery in the decades following the war.
7. These positive developments did not mean that northern whites accepted blacks as equals.
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