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Abolition and the Rise of US Environmentalism Habib Borjian appropriate materials and resourcesBy the 1840s, many Americans recognized that the institution of slavery was destroying Southern landscapes while threatening to expand into the West. An increasing number of white Northerners believed that stopping slavery's growth by surrounding areas where it was legal with so called free soil would hasten its collapse and forestall an environmental crisis. James S. Finley addresses this understudied intersection of US antislavery and environmental