After a voter said he found it “astonishing” that Haley hadn’t used the word “slavery” at any point in her answer, she asked, “What do you want me to say about slavery?”

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    The Fugitive Slave Act convinced the South they could not win at the ballot box, so they rejected democracy and took up arms to preserve their right to enslave.