In between these storm surges were steadier but similarly profound tides in which people moved out to colonize or were captured and brought in as slaves.
Hoping to escape the shallow emotionalism of the theatre (as she saw it), assuming a companionship of equals and somehow managing to forget the slaves, she married him.
Gerteis argues that, since slavery in the South precluded individual autonomy and the free pursuit of material gain, major Northern reformers opposed it as early as the 1830s.
They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.