Estimates of the market value of slaves before the Civil War vary widely, but they were clearly worth much more than the land they cultivated and may well have accounted for a majority of Southern ...

“Democrats wanted to expand slavery into western territories ... That compromise was put into place more than 40 years before the start of the Civil War in 1861. In May of 1854, Democrats ...

Historians have also started grappling with the ways American slavery was uniquely gender-egalitarian – at least for white women. While Northern women were trapped in coverture, Southern states were ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

After the Lemmons and their slaves found ... Lemmon was never brought before the Supreme Court, though Rosenblatt suspects that increasing violence ahead of the Civil War may have had something ...

Matthew J. Clavin tells the story in “Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War.” And it’s a story of when love and honesty met bigotry and hypocrisy head-on.

who facilitated the overland escape of freedom-seekers from the slave states to havens in the North and Canada in the decades before the Civil War. The Underground Railroad was more than a ...

“but lesser know is the important role New Yorkers and the New York courts played in chipping away at the foundation of slavery before the Civil War.” The inspiration behind the project is to ...

“Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now,” Baldwin ... age and what life was like back then and cotton and slavery and Lincoln and Robert E. Lee and so forth.” ...

Yet, like antebellum slavery, abortion is a question of ... conflicts among the states of a magnitude not seen since before the Civil War.