An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

They were by the 1850s about the business of building their own communities, and trying to organize real strategies against slavery in the South. Many white abolitionists had certain expectations ...

His life and works are praised in an elaborate ceremony. 1844 Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, professor and son of St. George Tucker, stoutly defends the institution of slavery. 1850s George Greenhow, the ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

Washington D.C.: 1850s: The nation's capital is a center of the domestic slave trade; many lawmakers were slaveholders. Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C. until 1862. 1838: The Anti ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...

Settlers from the South wanted to move to the West and take their enslaved workers with them Northerners wanted to stop the spread of slavery As new states were created, the issue of slavery ...

The Cyrus Gates Farmstead was built in the 1850s and stretched across 30 acres ... Tucked behind a hidden panel in the back of a cupboard, escaped slaves could crawl into a 10-by-20 foot secret ...

Coming as it did on the heels of the Fugitive Slave Act controversies of 1850-51, which showed federal power at work for slavery in the North, the prospect of slavery’s territorial expansion ...