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There are two main issue of the time and those were "State Rights" and "the moral issue of Slavery"... but they are pretty much interconnected because states believed they had a right to make its own laws dealing with slavery and the federal government had no rights in dealing with this issue within the state.
Disobedience and escaping were two ways of resisting slavery Disobedience and escaping were two ways of resisting slavery
Two slave states were indsputably Union states: Delaware and Maryland. Three slave states had two state governments, a Unionist one and a Confederate one, both claiming to be the legitimate government of their state: Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia.
Georgia initially resisted slavery because it began as a colony of small farmers who did not need and could not afford slave labor. North Carolina was also in opposition to slavery, mainly based on religious belief. Both Quakers as well as Methodists were opposed to slavery.