The 1836 "gag rule": ruled that slaves and white indentured servants could be gagged after their third offense. quashed publication of proslavery literature in the North. prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives. legalized Amos Kendall's burning of the literature of moral suasion.

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Francesca Jenkins

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15 May, 18:09

The 1836 "gag rule": ruled that slaves and white indentured servants could be gagged after their third offense. quashed publication of proslavery literature in the North. prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives. legalized Amos Kendall's burning of the literature of moral suasion.

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prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.

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The United States House of Representatives, in 1836, passed the gag rule, which rightly rejected all petitions made against slavery and also forbade the congress of the country from looking into antislavery issues. Representative James Hammond from south Carolina first talked about the rule in December of 1835. Another representative from Massachusetts known as John Quincy Adams fought against the gag rule, stating that it placed restrictions on free speech and the rule was finally abolished on December 3, 1844.