The manorialism, Puritan culture, bloody slavery and the Civil War, which was looked upon as a catastrophe, were rich soil for development of South Gothic novel.
The town of Saratoga Springs declared July 24 Solomon Northup Day to remember the suffering of Northup and other African Americans who lived as slaves.
While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.
Even though Lincoln promises he won’t interfere with slavery in the states that already have it, he and his party are still too anti slavery for the South to tolerate.
" This is bad, " said the Tin Woodman, " for if we cannot get to the land we shall be carried into the country of the Wicked Witch of the West, and she will enchant us and make us her slaves."