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  • 7 - The Crisis of Fear in South Carolina

  • Jeff Strickland, Montclair State University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    All for Liberty
    Published online:
    09 December 2021
    Print publication:
    16 December 2021, pp 167-188

  • Summary

    In late 1849, Governor Whitemarsh Seabrook, a Charleston resident well aware of the workhouse revolt, called for tighter policing of slavery throughout the state. The Compromise of 1850 served to heighten tensions, as South Carolinians feared the federal government would not only ban the extension of slavery into newly acquired territory resulting from the war with Mexico. In fact, white South Carolinians debated seceding from the United States between 1850 and 1852, deciding against it – until the time was right.