4. What the GOP did was argue that slavery should be prevented from growing,
but the actual abolition of slavery was a matter of state's rights.
It was genuinely a pro-business approach, and wasn't about freeing slaves at all, just about limiting it to where it was. Freeing slaves would've been bad for business.
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