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Unfortunately, this was the only way they could build antislavery coalition to win the White House in 1860. The new Republican Party couldn't just win on appealing to the moral sentiments of middle class religious people alone but, also had to appeal to the material interests of racist white settlers to push an antislavery agenda. The results of which we are still trying to grapple with as we try to formulate a basic platform for a liberatory political movement.