ABSTRACT
Slavery in the South. North and South blended into what would become the Border States, where questions of slavery and attitudes toward Negroes became not more complex, but more demanding. Delaware and Maryland were southern in sentiment, but their conti guity with Pennsylvania and New Jersey created disturbing internal differences on questions of national policies and treatment of Ne groes. Slaveholders and libertarians lived side by side in these states, making general agreement on definitions of servitude and freedom difficult. Roger B. Taney, of Maryland was one of the most ardent of Jacksonians, an enemy of monopoly, a key figure in the celebrated battle against the Second Bank of the United States. In his youth, he also spoke with contempt of the slavery system and expressed hopes for its early demise. Later, as Chief Justice of the United States Su preme Court, in his Dred Scott Decision (1857), he attempted to na tionalize the institution, and thus helped precipitate the Civil War.
