The American Dilemma
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5 pages in length. The American Dilemma represented one of myriad times in United States history where the concept of slavery was ripe for change. Thomas Jefferson, a man who openly abhorred the very practice of human servitude against one's will, openly vocalized his contempt by claiming the institution as a crime, an abomination, and a wasteful, dangerous, and immoral system of labor. Indeed, he held the power to make significant changes to the existing social system between blacks and whites, and he was bound and determined to do so. That is, however, until he realized the potential backlash that could rightly occur if emancipation was to take place without the corresponding protection of colonization. What ultimately resided at the crux of the American Dilemma was Jefferson's vacillating indecisiveness when it came time to act upon his previous condemnation; as such, the American Civil War is when abolition truly began to take shape. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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