In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

In 1860, slavery was still legal in 15 of the 33 U.S. states, ... accessed July 15, Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States.

The Wide Awakes symbol was a single eye, open to the danger slavery posed. ... The Wide Awakes did not just march for show; they embodied the very real struggles dividing the United States in 1860.

SIR At the Wesleyan Conference in Liverpool, in 1859, Bishop SIMPSON and Dr. McCLINTOOK,two delegates from the American Methodist Episcopal Church, declared the body they represented to be Anti ...

The viral post said that "at the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books doesn’t tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the ...

Senator SEWARD, in his speech on Friday night, declared the whole aim and duty of the Republican Party to be, to leave Slavery just where it is.

A map from the Library of Congress breaks down the percentage of the slave population in Southern states, according to census data from 1860. Harris County is a light gray, whereas the surrounding ...

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln (and the Republican Party) stood as the only viable alternative to the moral indifference of Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s “popular sovereignty” and the pro-slavery ...

The Official Medallion of the British Anti-Slavery Society--1795 This is the second post in a six-part series dealing with the race questions on the census. Just as the concept of race differs ...