the slavery/anti-slavery thing was always a north-south thing, not a democrat-republican thing. Republicans were powerful in the north and then their base shifted to people from the south. Democrats shifted northward. As they shifted, so did their stance on things.
the slavery/anti-slavery thing was always a north-south thing, not a democrat-republican thing. Republicans were powerful in the north and then their base shifted to people from the south. Democrats shifted northward. As they shifted, so did their stance on things.
The Republican Party was formed, explicitly, as an anti-slavery party.