A mydipropaganda war for and/or against whatever?!

There
were abolitionists
in the South as well!
In 1831 & 1832 Virginia attempted
to outlaw slavery during a prolonged and bitter debate.

The nations's churches at first stood strongly against it but after 1830,
as it appeared that the controversy might disrupt their national organizations,,
backed down. Some abolitionists took a constructive attitude ~ in 1821 the American Colonization Society purchased a chunk of West Africa coast land, established it as a home for a few freed slaves,
later christened it Liberia. But in the main the abolitionists were incendiaries.

As the 19th Century wore on, their ranks steadily grew & their thinking
hardened. What had been in 1820 the abolitionists' realization
that slavery should be destroyed became,
by 1850, a conviction that it
must be destroyed and
at whatever
cost.

The battle
over slavery
was also fought
in literature and lithograph.
By far the greatest piece of propaganda
~ indeed, one of the greatest pieces of propaganda
in the history of mankind ~ was Uncle Tom's Cabin, the novel
by Harriet Beecher Stowe which appeared in 1852. An incredible bestseller
~ 300,000 copies the first year, despite its banning in the South ~ the book attacked slavery
through a set of characters drawn with enormous power, Little Eva, Simon Legree & Uncle Tom himself,
in the book, on the stage and in poster art, soon became living and breathing human beings to the North.

The South's case was made by various writers and artists, but none ever matched Uncle Tom's Cabin.
. The Southern View of slavery was summed up by Currier and Ives, who made lithographs:
from their point of view slavery was not an evil but a secure and comfortable way of life
for simple-minded, childlike darkies, who could live in a snug cabin near the old
manse and so pass their time happily forever dancing and s{w}inging?!

And about one hundred years later in the middle of the 50's
even white singers, dancers, performers & popular 'stars'
appeared to bring black swing & sting to still pre-
dominantly rich & middle class white kids ready
to join the age of toppopstars of the musical
industries with lots of fans, fads, fears &
mixtures of hillbilly & "rock-'n-roll":
yelling & screaming teenage girls
crowded the doorsteps op music
halls, radio stations with "disk
jockeys" selling many mil-
lions of copies with all
kinds of strange mo-
vements of about
every part of the
body & mind in-
toxicated by
alcohol and
"drugs"
...