Grynaviski, Jeffrey; Munger, Michael - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 341-361
about the morality or long-term viability of slavery. It is unclear, however, whether such expressions of anti-slavery … that there was a change in elite rhetoric about slavery, initiated by Whig politicians in the mid-1830s seeking a campaign … issue in the South, in which anti-slavery rhetoric became linked to attempts by abolitionists to foment slave unrest, making …