Did Republican Party abolish slavery in the U.S?

Now, the issue here wasn't that Northern politicians were desperate to abolish slavery in the South immediately, apart from a few radical crusaders. read more

Slavery had been prohibited in many states many decades before the Republican Party was formed but there was no nation-wide abolition. That required a change to the Constitution, the fundamental law that authorizes the government and forms the basis for all other laws. read more

With the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, the Radicals had control of Congress, the party and the army and attempted to build a solid Republican base in the South using the votes of Freedmen, Scalawags and Carpetbaggers, supported directly by U.S. Army detachments. read more

All he aims at is to have Slavery left where it is, -- and this is all the Republican Party proposes to do about it. The Charleston Mercury not long ago declared that the success of the Republican Party would put an end to the slavery agitation as a sectional question. read more