The Free Soilers condemned slavery because
a. of the harm it did to blacks.
b. it violated their strongly held moral principles about the equality of all races.
c. it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise from wage-earning to self-employment.
d. it was the only way they had of combating the appeal of the Democratic party.
e. it damaged the national economy.
c
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A) 0.5 percent B) 5 percent C) 10 percent D) 25 percent E) 50 percent
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