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The Kansas-Nebraska Act didn't impose a judgement of slave state or not on the aforementioned states. This gave the North some time to work on their abolitionist acts and didn't allow the south to gain more support automatically.

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Territory Nebraska; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of the admission…

…Territory of Kansas; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission…

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Lincoln, while still a racist, was a strong proponent of ending slavery. His words at a debate with presidential opponent Stephen Douglas clearly shows this. His vigorous opposition to the institution of slavery helped abolish the practice.

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The Missouri Compromise put a permanent split between north and south not only in slavery but in jobs. Manufacturing took over the north while farming stayed popular in the south. This is due to the influx of German and Irish immigrants to the north and the holding up of slavery in the south.

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"That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty- six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited."

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The Missouri Compromise made it so that all states above the Missouri state line states without slavery while all under the state line had slavery. This put a literal barrier between pro-slavery and anti-slavery states.

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Clay picked up on slavery's effects long before people would publicly write about it.

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This document was a risque piece at the time it was written because slavery was never shown in this light, let alone by a black person. It made people think about how slavery affects people to the point where Jacobs herself hid in a small room for years rather than be a slave.

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"In the right to eat the bread...that his own hand owns, he is my equal and the equal of every living man."

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"Slavery is undoubtedly a manifest violation of the rights of man. It can only be justified in America, if at all, by necessity. That it entails innumerable mischiefs upon our Country I think is quite clear. It may become dangerous in particular parts of the Union. But the slaves can never, I think, acquire permanent ascendancy in any part."

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Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

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Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1861

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This continued darkness was oppressive. It seemed horrible to sit or lie in a cramped position day after day. Yet I would have chosen this, rather than my lot as a slave.