Looking Back and Talking Quack. 1  The Robertson family takes a look back at 130 episodes of Duck Dynasty, discussing their favorite memories from the series and how the show changed their lives, as well as revealing some moments never before seen on television. E 15.
During the following decades, the abolitionist movement grew in northern states, and Congress regulated the expansion of slavery in new states admitted to the union. Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807 and abolished slavery in the British Empire in 1833.
But by the mid-nineteenth century, the ideological contradictions between a national defense of slavery on American soil on the one hand, and the universal freedoms espoused in the Declaration of Independence on the other hand, had created a deep moral schism in the national culture.