Waleed Shahid

Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

"...the abolitionists, who stood outside of politics & hoped to force public opinion—and through it, politicians—to confront the slavery issue, & political agitators, who used politics as a way of heightening sectional self-consciousness and antagonism in the populace at large." — PolitiTweet.org

Waleed Shahid @_waleedshahid

."Northern political agitators...performed the function of developing and popularizing a political rhetoric, especially focused on fear of the Slave Power, which could be seized upon by traditional politicians and...voters if slavery ever entered the center of political conflict" — PolitiTweet.org