“So the claim that slavery would “expand” was just a lie.”
What in hell do you think the fight over slavery in Kansas was about? Expanding slavery was what it was about.
Well I know what *YOU* think it was about, because that's what you've been told.
What it was actually about was 2 Senators and some Congressmen upsetting the balance in Washington DC, and thereby cutting off the millions of dollars the Northern Industrialists were getting by controlling the Congress and passing laws which siphoned money out of the South to go into their own pockets.
The fight in Kansas was about control of Washington DC. It was never about actual slavery, just whether Kansas would support the Southern states, or the Northern states.
Expanding slavery was what it was about.
Yeah, because Kansas is a well known cotton growing state.
Get real. People spout this stuff because they've never bothered to question the things they've been told.
It was literally impossible to create any significant slave presence in Kansas in the 1850s. There was nothing slaves could do in that state which would make it worth sending them there.
Slaves could produce real money in Mississippi or Louisiana, because they could grow cotton, but in Kansas? There was literally nothing they could do thaty would be worth the cost of having slaves in that state.