The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

It also perpetuated the practice of slavery, sparked the Civil War and left a difficult legacy," he said. The Southern British colonies depended on agriculture for their wealth. The white elite ruling ...

“If it is debated whether their slaves are their property,” Lynch ... was the half-million enslaved persons living in the Southern colonies primed for a revolution of their own against their ...

But if the Federal Government is to spend money at all in this matter, it should be done to ameliorate, rather than to abolish, the Slavery of the Southern States. Suppose the Government were to ...

At this time, the recent invention of the cotton gin transformed the southern economy by ... For as long as slavery existed in the colonies and then the new nation, there had been people fighting ...

It began after Patrick Henry convinced the conservative tobacco planters of Virginia—the largest, most populous and richest of the Thirteen Colonies ... freedom to the slaves and reduce ...