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

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 ...

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 ...

The modified National Park Service site now showcases stamps of Tubman and civil rights leaders while removing explicit ...

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 ...