Seward agreed with the proposal, but cautioned Lincoln to wait until the Union had a major victory before ... slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War ...

often a bill of sale - bearing just the age and gender of the person sold - is the only record for an individual living in a pre-Civil War slave-holding state. The challenges of reaching back to ...

If Jefferson had had his way, according to his memoir, which he began writing in 1821 at age 77, slavery would have been phased out long before blood was shed to ... led to the expansion of slavery, ...

Slavery caused the Civil War — that is the bold ... to think and to engage. Before visitors even step inside, they're invited at the doors to drop a token into a box to say what they think ...

slave laborers could only legally be acquired domestically, giving rise to a booming internal market in human beings. In the decades before the Civil War, more than one million enslaved people ...

The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum, or the Burkle Estate, draws visitors back to the pre-Civil War era. The main house was once used as a shelter for slaves along the Underground Railroad.

"Stumbling stones" honoring the lives of people enslaved in pre-Civil War Arlington will soon be coming to more local neighborhoods. An additional 15 of the brass memorial markers are slated to be ...

A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation ... and that Freedmen’s Bureau really helped to usher post-Civil War slaves into freedom," said Dr. Mitchell. If General Howard's name ...

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Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened ... which he began writing in 1821 at age 77, slavery would have been phased out long before blood was shed to end it. His plan, he claimed ...

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...