The South regarded the move as a declaration of war. ... Virginia had long been undecided about which side to join. ... When the Civil War began, about 22 million people lived in the North. About 9 million people, including 3.5 million slaves, lived in the South. ... The South had only about 1 million white men from 15 through 40. ...
Nobody seems to think or care about anything else.... These entrenched principles about the expansion of slavery to Missouri did not appear out of nowhere. ... Additionally, as John Craig Hammond had presented, before the War of 1812 countless Northerners were more disturbed about all western territories' devotion to the Union than about the real North-South division. ... " King later renounced some of the radical suggestions of this declaration for slavery beyond Missouri, but it was a sign of how far the debates had pressed some Northerners. ... It convinced many Southerners to hig...
When I first refined my topic for further exploration I was under the impression that I would be able to review the differing views of President Lincoln's attitude towards emancipation, and then to draw some conclusions about his motives, and decide if it was the great gesture it is believed to be by many today. ... "This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert zeal for the spread of slavery I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-int...
In 1831, Turner and from 60 to 70 other slaves killed about 60 whites in Virginia. ... The Virginia militia captured and hanged about 20 of the slaves, including Turner. In addition, angry whites killed about 100 innocent slaves. ... Meanwhile, he had conceived an intense hatred of the institution of slavery and had resolved to do everything in his power to bring about its destruction. ...
Douglass was the first slave to stand publicly and declare his fugitive status, became a prolific lecturer, and published many newspapers during his lifetime which he devoted to causes in the name of "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for all, as set forth in the United States Declaration of Independence Preface: Some narratives began with a preface and for this book, there is a preface and it begins by William Lloyd Garrison and a letter to Douglass from Wendell Phillips, he starts out his preface by telling us how he and Douglass meet. They met at an abolitionist conventi...
