Strong differences of opinion over the slavery question led to violent clashes, culminating in the raid on Harpers Ferry. After the election of President Lincoln in 1860, seven southern states ...

This map, made by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1861 using census data from 1860, shows the relative prevalence of slavery in Southern counties that year. (Click on the image or on this link to arrive ...

Monday, Jan. 2, 1860. "The Abolitionists must be driven ... policy and system of Slavery on grounds so often presented by our Clays, Breckinridges, Marshalls, Underwoods, Nicholases, and Robertsons.