Lawrence R. Tenzer has devoted a great deal of time and energy to
studying what he believes is a sadly overlooked aspect of the slavery issue and its impact on the minds of Northerners and Southerners alike. This is the topic of white slavery. Tenzer argues that many contemporaries knew it existed and were deeply shocked. This helped to lead them to oppose the extension of slavery into the western territories and thus was a significant cause of the Civil War. Tenzer emphatically states that the possibility of white slavery is a definite contribution to tensions of civil war.
White slavery resulted from the strict laws and social practices of
the South.
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