| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:political_office 
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                                | gptkbp:associatedWith | gptkb:antebellum_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:criticizedFor | gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln gptkb:Charles_Sumner
 gptkb:Frederick_Douglass
 gptkb:William_Lloyd_Garrison
 
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                                | gptkbp:declinedAfter | gptkb:American_Civil_War gptkb:Emancipation_Proclamation
 gptkb:Thirteenth_Amendment
 
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                                | gptkbp:goal | expansion of slavery into new territories political dominance
 preservation of slavery
 
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                                | gptkbp:hasTerm | political speeches The Impending Crisis of the South
 newspaper editorials
 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:U.S._House_of_Representatives gptkb:Compromise_of_1850
 gptkb:Missouri_Compromise
 gptkb:Kansas-Nebraska_Act
 gptkb:Dred_Scott_decision
 gptkb:U.S._Senate
 gptkb:U.S._Supreme_Court
 gptkb:U.S._presidential_elections
 gptkb:Fugitive_Slave_Act
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableSupporter | gptkb:Jefferson_Davis gptkb:John_C._Calhoun
 gptkb:James_Henry_Hammond
 
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                                | gptkbp:opposedBy | gptkb:Republican_Party gptkb:abolitionist
 gptkb:Free_Soil_Party
 
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                                | gptkbp:perceivedAs | gptkb:nobleman threat to democracy
 
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                                | gptkbp:popularizedBy | Republican politicians abolitionist writers
 
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                                | gptkbp:refersTo | influence of slaveholding interests in the United States 
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                                | gptkbp:relatedTo | gptkb:Southern_United_States gptkb:U.S._Congress
 slavery in the United States
 expansion of slavery
 
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                                | gptkbp:usedIn | 19th-century American political discourse 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:History_of_slavery_in_the_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 7 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | The Slave Power 
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