Evaluate how much the institution of slavery shaped United States society from 1783 to 1840.
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Between 1783 and 1840 slavery shaped U.S. society to a great extent, driving sectional conflict in national politics, a hardening religious and political defense of slavery in the South, and a growing abolitionist movement in the North.
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Furman wrote in 1823 as a South Carolina Baptist leader, the year after the Denmark Vesey conspiracy in Charleston - his purpose of reassuring slaveholders explains his religious defense of slavery and shows how the institution was reshaping Southern churches.
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Explain how slavery shaped North and South differently (gradual emancipation and abolitionism versus expanding cotton slavery), or connect the period's conflicts to the sectional crisis of the 1850s.
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