"Most students of America's past realize that the Civil War marked a major turning point in the nation's history. ... In the south in places like Georgia and Alabama there were more plantations and they also had a much larger slave population. ...
It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. ... Republics had a history of splitting into smaller parts and descending into anarchy. ... The seven states of the lower South (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas) formed themselves into the Confederate States of America. ...
Between the years 1790 and 1860, almost 835,000 slaves were moved from the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in moral values and sensibility. For one of the first times in history, both religious and nonclerical associations denounced the institution of slavery as both an act of sin against man and God and as a violation of natural rights. During the 1760s, the first movements in history began to denounce slavery. ... With the southe...
