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The history of slavery in the United States was a long one and subject to many twists and turns. Ultimately, the issue that was so controversial in the formation of the United States government subsequent to the end of American Revolution became one of the reasons for the fighting of the Civil War. As a result of that war slavery was abolished in the United States but for over seventy-five years politicians, judges and social activists struggled to keep slavery from tearing apart the great American experiment.
Although it has not been publicized extensively slavery existed in all the colonies prior to the American Revolution. By the time that the Revolution ended most northern states had abolished slavery within its borders and it was only the southern states that continued this practice. At the time that the United States government was originally organized it was a major concern for the southern delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The south's economy was heavily dependent on the inexpensive labor provided by slaves. Although there was some strong opposition from the northern delegates, slavery was allowed to continue in the south. In the first compromise of many relative to slavery, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention allowed slavery to continue in the new United States subject to some conditions. The conditions were that slaves were to be counted as three-fifths of a whole person and that all importation of slaves would end by year 1808. This compromise allowed the government to be formed but it also likely sowed the seed for the Civil War.
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Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, lift my lamp beside the golden door! In fact, these same words have welcomed countless immigrants to the shores of the United States in years past, but they are ringing increasingly hollow today. The "golden door" has been shut and the homeless are being "tost" back into the tempest. Indeed, as West (2003) emphasizes, "Unless the nation decides to return to a controlled legal
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