They most likely would have sent messages like if they won or lost a battle. The modern Athens Marathon commemorates the run of a messenger from a battlefield at the site of the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C. Legend has it that a messenger delivered the momentous message “Niki!” (“victory”), then collapsed and died. Maybe messages of where they should meet for battle, so if the figure out the enemy is attacking 50 miles west of where they were they could message their allies to meet there instead.
The terms that were used to discuss slavery prior to the popularity of Uncle Tom's Cabin were state rights and popular sovereignty.
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The disparity in the practice of slavery evident between the states of the south and the north led to the conforming of the terms state rights and popular sovereignty.
The southern states believed that it was their right to practice slavery and run the economy of the states through agriculture mostly carried out at the hands of slaves.
