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Uhh hello? We never read that lesson so don't expect us to be demigods to figure out what you're talking about. Either post with the textbook or I don't think anyone in this world can answer these child level questions.
They wrote about slavery from the standpoint of the Bible (Barnes opposed slavery, while Thornwell, a Southerner, supported it).
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People turned to religion and spiritualism to cope with the unprecedented number of deaths.
Many clergy in the North professed that the war was God's instrument to rid the nation of slavery and turn it into the true land of freedom.