Today's American Minute — Anti-Slavery Party Founded - Not Black vs White issue but Republican vs Democrat issue
Anti-Slavery Party Founded - Not Black vs White issue but Republican vs Democrat issue - American Minute with Bill Federer
Anti-Slavery Party Founded - Not Black vs White issue but Republican vs Democrat issue
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The original Republican platform was adopted June 18, 1856, being the first political party in history to have the abolition of slavery in its official party platform: "This Convention of Delegates ... are opposed to ... the extension of Slavery into Free Territory ... We deny the authority of Congress ... to give legal existence to slavery ... It is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy, and Slavery."