| 单词 | slave state |
| 例句 | On average, the men purchased in Louisiana were an inch taller than the people bought in the other slave states. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z On the map, the division line between slave and non-slave societies occurs in Virginia, broadly anticipating the Mason-Dixon line that later split slave states from free. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z New laws were passed in the slave states and the old laws were more rigidly enforced. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A financial reckoning was inevitable, but come the approaching conflict over the race question, North Carolina would emerge in the most advantageous position of all the slave states. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland was a slave state, it came to be regarded as the border between the free North and slaveholding South. k Several Civil War battles have two names. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z To places that didn’t share a border with slave states, had never countenanced the abomination of slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At first Harriet could not believe it possible that anyone could be taken out of the free state of Massachusetts and sent back to a slave state. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, I didn’t see how even someone much wiser than I was in the ways of the time could escape from Louisiana, surrounded as they would be by water and slave states. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The cotton boom led planters to sell slaves — one million moved from old to new slave states from the 1790s to the 1860s. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Each new defection would further diminish the strength of the remaining slave states, further accelerating the process of abolition. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z Surrounded on all sides, deprived of life-giving federal support, the slave states would one by one abolish slavery on their own, beginning with the border states. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z Huck, in that moment, must decide whether to ignore his heart and obey the community “conscience” and the laws of the slave state of Missouri. The night Mark Twain brought Huck Finn alive 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The path to statehood began with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which required the admission of one slave state alongside each new free state admitted to the Union. Looking for a Gold-Rush Town Named Chinese Camp 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In other words it was still a slave state as late as 1865. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z This had predictable results: the reassertion of white supremacist power in the former slave states, and spasms of antiloyalist and antiblack violence. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z If the slave states remained within the Union, the Republicans would not have the majorities in Congress to adopt their antislavery policies. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z If the slave states ever seceded, the antislavery Northerners warned, they would forfeit their constitutional rights, and the free states would no longer be obliged to enforce the fugitive slave clause. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Oliver then evoked the 3/5 Compromise, which gave disproportionate representation to slave states before the Civil War. John Oliver takes aim at Confederate flag after Charleston shooting 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z So fearful were the Southern slaveholders of Lincoln and the Republicans that simply his election as president in November 1860 precipitated the immediate secession of many slave states. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Duncanson painted “Landscape With Rainbow” while living on the edge of another America: in Cincinnati, across the river from the slave state of Kentucky. A closer look at Robert Duncanson, the Black landscape artist behind the inaugural painting presented to the Bidens 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z A “cordon of freedom” would surround the slave states. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z By the end of January 1865 there were 27 free states and nine slave states in the Union, exactly the proportions needed to ratify the amendment. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z His victory in the chaotic, fractious election of 1860 precipitated the secession of the slave states. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Maryland and Virginia at the time were two of the three largest slave states in the country, and a capital carved out of their territories would tolerate slavery. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z GS Because the electoral college was a requirement of the slave states in the first place. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z It looks like any other highway, but along it were many battles between Kansan settlers in the 1850s over whether the territory should be a free state or a slave state. Q&A: Richard Linklater on America’s Ignored Monuments 2012-08-24T20:33:56Z On May 19, 1856, Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner, a Republican who was passionately anti-slavery, rose to speak against Kansas joining the Union as a slave state. With shutdown looming, GOP's comic-book villains push America to the abyss 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Even after passage, the law often had to be enforced in many former slave states by federal agents. Celebrating Juneteenth 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z "My family had nothing to do with slavery. California was never a slave state," he said. California reparations: How do you put a price on racism? 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Pfaelzer’s creeping epiphany became a full-blown thesis: California, cemented in the American mind since at least the Civil War as the beacon of freedom and opportunity, was — and remains — a slave state. How the author of 'California, a Slave State' revised our too-sunny history 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Critics pin their opposition partly on the fact that California was never a slave state and say current taxpayers should not be responsible for damage linked to events that germinated hundreds of years ago. Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z States’ rights took a hit in the Civil War, when the South refused to take the deal that Abraham Lincoln offered — stay in the Union as slave states. Federalism allows red-blue divide among states without civil war, just as Founders intended 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z In 1853, Maryland, a slave state, passed a law forbidding free Black people from the North from entering, effectively barring Harper from returning to her birthplace. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z With numerous Democratic-governed states taking steps to protect and expand abortion access, Tobias likened the current situation to the pre-Civil War era when the nation was closely divided between free states and slave states. US divided over Roe’s repeal as abortion foes gird for march 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Buchanan won, carrying every slave state except Maryland, as well as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and California, while Frémont won the rest of the free states. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Arizona was a Confederate territory, whose early leaders had business ties to and a sense of common cause with the slave states of the Deep South. For Black families in Phoenix, child welfare investigations are a constant threat 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Fourteen shields are located just beneath her, representing the 13 states that seceded during the Civil War and the border slave state Maryland which did not leave the Union. Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate monument should be removed, panel says 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Indeed, because Lincoln declared the nation could not survive if the slave state–free state division continued, Douglas claimed the Republicans aimed to destroy what the founders had created. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z When the owner brought him back to Missouri, a slave state, Dred Scott sued claiming that his time living in free territory made him free. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Five of those seven were from slave states and slaveholding families. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The 19th century Mason-Dixon Line marked the boundary between slave states in the South and free states in the North. Supreme Court draws a red line between states on abortion 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Without success, slavery’s defenders demanded that the free states ban “incendiary” speech and writing just as the slave states did. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Furthermore, he feared that making the abolition of slavery an objective of the war would cause the border slave states to join the Confederacy. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Many wanted the same number of slave states, where slavery was allowed, and free states, where it was illegal. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Many things in former slave states have those connotations,” he said, arguing that those places and names have since developed new meaning to their communities. Fairfax County may rename two districts over ties to slavery 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z The body of water used to delineate Southern slave states from free territories in the North; consequently, thousands of enslaved people passed through it in pursuit of liberty. Ahead of the Super Bowl, Cincinnati native bares all about the Bengals 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Most slave states had made it a crime to teach slaves to read, so learning was a prized symbol of liberty as well as an invaluable survival skill. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z To balance votes in the Senate, was admitted to the Union as a free state at the same time that Missouri was admitted as a slave state. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In 1819, Missouri asked to join the Union as a slave state. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z California’s Fugitive Slave Law of 1852 authorized slaveholders to use violent means to capture enslaved people who arrived in California before its statehood and escaped, or refused to return to slave states with their enslaver. California created the nation's first state reparations task force. Now comes the hard part 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z In order to enforce slavery in the slave states, it was impossible for the free state to protect their own people. The "Guarantee Clause": Could this one weird trick save American democracy? 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Everyone knew that slavery had led to war, but not all slave states had seceded, not all slaveholders were disloyal, and not all northerners wanted abolition. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Adding Texas would upset the balance between free and slave states in Congress. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z According to the Missouri Compromise, Missouri could be a slave state and Maine would join the Union as a free state. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s no accident of history that former slave states cling stubbornly to this barbaric sentence. California halted executions, now it should abolish the death penalty 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Many historians think that was in part because the slaveowners and the slave states understood the Guarantee Clause as a threat to them. The "Guarantee Clause": Could this one weird trick save American democracy? 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z In fact, John Boston’s owner claimed to be a unionist from the loyal slave state of Maryland. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Why did the balance of free and slave states matter? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Part of the republic became the state of Texas, a slave state. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As a free man, Bush settled in Missouri, a slave state, where he met and married Isabella James. George Bush, Washington’s unheralded Black pioneer, honored at state Capitol and beyond 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The Nov. 5 letter “The filibuster must go” repeated the myth that it was “the Three-Fifths Compromise that gave outsize influence to Southern slave states.” Opinion | Readers critique The Post: For peat’s sake, it’s time for a geography lesson 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z The four remaining slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri teetered on the brink of secession but ultimately held back. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Moreover, slave states in the Union, such as Kentucky, could not sue because the proclamation did not apply to them. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z This line had come to represent the division between free and slave states. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But for more than a decade, the U.S. refused to annex the territory, as the leaders of the rebellion had hoped would quickly happen, largely because of domestic politics over admitting another slave state. Ted Cruz: Texas secession in play if Democrats ‘fundamentally destroy’ U.S. 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z And yes, to label the filibuster as racist is accurate, as it parallels the Three-Fifths Compromise that gave outsize influence to Southern slave states. Opinion | Sen. Romney is wrong on the filibuster 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z New England Federalists also feared the creation of new slave states and dilution of their region’s influence. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The great expansion of the United States did have its critics, however, especially northerners who feared the addition of more slave states and a corresponding lack of representation of their interests in the North. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Its state leaders wanted Missouri to become a slave state in 1820. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Three hundred academy graduates were affiliated with slave states that officially seceded either by birth or residence. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: These are space tourists — not astronauts 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z But the state Senate balked, probably picking up on rumors that the muscular pro-slavery forces in Southern California wanted any new states to be slave states. Why has massive California never been split into two states? Or six? 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z These developments fostered labor unions and strikes, and brought gibes from the slave states that the liberty and equality of free society were delusions. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Tallmadge Amendment was narrowly rejected, the balance between free and slave states was maintained in the Senate, and southerners did not have to fear that Missouri slaveholders would be deprived of their human property. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z This decision would disrupt the balance of the free and slave states. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The five slave states wanted all their enslaved people counted toward representation — even though they couldn't vote or enjoy any of the rights of citizenship — but didn't want to pay any "property tax" on them. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z During the Civil War, that meant holding Kentucky — a slave state — in the Union and serving in battle. Review | The Supreme Court’s complicated civil rights hero 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z This outcome ended all public discussion of a peaceful and voluntary end to slavery in the nation’s largest slave state. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government’s reluctant tolerance of slavery and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z At the time, there were 11 free states and 11 slave states. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The eight "free" states vehemently objected both to counting enslaved people to increase the slave states' representation in Congress and to subsidizing them via tax law. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Constitution after demands by slave states for a constitutional right to form militias to put down slave revolts. Scholar Carol Anderson on the "anti-Blackness" coded into the Second Amendment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Instead, Democrats carried all the other slave states by loudly boasting of their party’s pro-slavery record in Kansas and warning that Frémont’s victory would bring abolition, secession, and civil war. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Admitting Missouri as a slave state also threatened the tenuous balance between free and slave states in the Senate by giving slave states a two-vote advantage. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The proclamation did not end slavery in the border states, slave states that stayed loyal to the Union. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But the white supremacist slaveholders representing the slave states in the Convention wanted more power in Congress and lower taxes in their own states, much like today's Republicans. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z And then they took him to Missouri, a slave state. Scholar Carol Anderson on the "anti-Blackness" coded into the Second Amendment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Stephen A. Douglas professed not to care if Kansas became a slave state so long as it did so fairly, but he slammed the Lecompton constitution as a “flagrant violation of popular rights.” Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, with the Missouri Crisis in mind, the United States refused the Texans’ request to enter the United States as a slave state in 1836. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Though Oregon wasn’t a slave state, its constitution explicitly barred Black settlers, a provision that wasn’t repealed until 1927. Despite racial reckoning, state efforts stall on reparations 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Morris lost the argument and the Southern slave states got extra representation in Congress along with no federal taxation of their "property." Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Sandford tried to resolve the political debate over slave states in the West. Review | America’s forgotten civil rights movement 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z When it became public, Republicans denounced the “Ostend Manifesto” and continued to work against annexation efforts, well knowing that the greatest of all sugar colonies could only join the Union as a slave state. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z What are the economic and political issues raised by having an imbalance between free and slave states? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Asked about Alabama’s 1861 Articles of Secession that says Alabama wanted to form a new government with other slave states, Holmes replied, “I’ve never seen that. Do you have proof of that?” Proposal in Alabama to up protection for Confederate statues 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Former slave states like Hawley's Missouri represent the overwhelming majority of states to have passed voter suppression legislation. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Illinois was never a slave state — indeed Abraham Lincoln rose to political prominence there — although Evanston acknowledged both the effects of slavery and a history of discrimination since its abolition. Evanston approves reparations after city council vote: ‘A step towards … equity’ 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The Second Party System still survived in the nonseceding slave states. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It dominated cotton production in the Mississippi River Valley—home of the new slave states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri—as well as in other states like Texas. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Problem solved with a little boundary redrawing, sending them all back to the arms of Maryland, a former slave state. Perspective | D.C. statehood is about more than getting a vote 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Northern states get back a fraction of every dollar they send to Washington, while former slave states get as much as $2 for every tax dollar they send the federal government. Josh Hawley's deranged "Love America Act" is a testament to racist hatred 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The three-fifths clause was a compromise that overall favored the Southern position by increasing the power of the slave states in Congress. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A diversity of views on D.C.’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z The laws of the slave states did not recognize slave marriages, but most masters encouraged slaves to form marriage-like unions and to live in families. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Whenever new slave states entered the Union, White slaveholders sent armies of the enslaved to clear the land in order to grow and pick the lucrative crop. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z She talked her way to freedom for herself and her family from a “master” who intended to drag them out of the free state of California to the slave state of Texas. Behind these names, you'll find stories of L.A.'s Black history 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Duncanson painted “Landscape with Rainbow” while living on the edge of another America: in Cincinnati, across the river from the slave state of Kentucky. A closer look at Robert Duncanson, the Black landscape artist behind the inaugural painting presented to the Bidens 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Adams died by suicide last year after he faced backlash over comments he posted on social media, in which he compared coronavirus restrictions to living in a “slave state.” Campus free speech bill considered by Montana House 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Accepting this reality, the laws of the slave states generally forbade the deliberate murder of a slave but otherwise gave masters a free hand. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Slaveholders looked south to the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, hoping to add new slave states. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Lincoln also tried in vain to entice the loyal border slave states to adopt gradual emancipation policies, by offering to compensate them for their financial losses and to deport those who were freed. Review | Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power — and limits — in the Constitution 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The fugitive slave clause authorized agents to raid and deport northern Black people into slave states. Opinion | The challenges of teaching the Constitution in the age of Trump 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Maryland was a slave state and Baltimore a hotbed of Southern sympathy, so Lincoln’s team came up with a way to sneak him through town. Sharpshooters, Protesters, a Secret Train Trip 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z It was economically necessary, not only in the existing slave states, but also in the West. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Delaware, which was technically a slave state despite its tiny enslaved population, never voted to secede. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z In his reckoning, the policy of nonextension, by surrounding slave states with a cordon of free states, would undermine slavery’s economic profitability and motivate Southern Whites to dismantle the institution. Review | Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power — and limits — in the Constitution 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z His argument is effectively that the Electoral College is “by design” a racist system to serves the interest of slave states. ‘Restore electoral balance’: Black votes should count double, law professor says 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s important to remember, Gary tells Anushka, that the US was a slave state for more than 200 years; and an apartheid state, after the abolition of slavery, for another century. Biden prepares key cabinet picks as Trump team cuts ties with attorney – live 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z British adventurers would mingle with the Indians and runaway blacks as they had in Spanish Florida, inciting forays into the slave states and possibly creating a beachhead for a serious British invasion. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The disposition of this new territory was in question; would the new states be slave states or free-soil states? U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The Washingtons regularly rotated people back to Virginia or, in a pinch, over the border to New Jersey — a slave state — to reset their time in the capital before six months were up. George Washington’s 1795 Thanksgiving celebrated liberty. But the chef behind the feast had none. 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z It is important to remember that the US was a slave state for more than 200 years – and an apartheid state, after the abolition of slavery, for another century. Counted out: Trump's desperate fight to stop the minority vote 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Adams, who is white, tweeted he dined with six men at a six-seat table and “felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina.” Authorities: Professor died by suicide after backlash 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Farther northward, the slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware were even more reluctant to disturb the Union. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Thousands of Americans, primarily from slave states, flocked to Texas and quickly came to outnumber the Tejanos, the Mexican residents of the region. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Adams tweeted that he dined with six men at a six-seat table and “felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of North Carolina.” North Carolina professor found dead weeks after backlash 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Representative Samuel Thatcher of Massachusetts complained that counting enslaved people added significant numbers to the slave states' delegations. Electoral College benefits whiter states, study shows 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Juneteenth has not been a big holiday in Maine, which was not a slave state before the Civil War and has one of the smallest African-American populations in the country. Editorial Roundup: New England 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z They used the opportunity to broaden southern democracy, expand public services, and spread black voting and office holding across the former slave states. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But American slaveholders in Texas distrusted the Mexican government and wanted Texas to be a new U.S. slave state. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Also that year, Biden commented that Delaware's history as a slave state helped explain how it stayed out of some partisan fights. Biden called Confederate heritage group 'fine people' 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Some may think the slave states were right to secede, and they’re free to do so. Headlong into the mud 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Or: The invention of the cotton gin ----> the economic revitalization of slavery ----> the push by slave states for expansion ----> Bleeding Kansas ----> the Civil War. Terribly shallow 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Without embracing abolitionism, they increasingly favored a policy called “free soil,” which would limit slavery to the existing slave states and reserve the West for freedom. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In this climate of opinion, voters in 1844 elected James K. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state and take Oregon. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Asked for a reaction to those comments by Fox News on Monday, a Trump campaign senior official responded: “Who brags about being from a slave state?” Biden called Confederate heritage group 'fine people' 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z And as for the “age old conundrum” about the cause of the Civil War, the cause was the secession by slave states in order to perpetuate slavery. Headlong into the mud 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z So far, at least, the leader of the most powerful nation in the world appears to have been outmanoeuvred by the tyrant leader of a bankrupt slave state. Malcolm Turnbull on Donald Trump: 'You don't suck up to bullies' 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Party activists remembered that southerners had barred Martin Van Buren from the presidential ticket in 1844 because he would not risk a war for Texas, a future slave state. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Mississippi River Valley slave states became the epicenter of cotton production, an area of frantic economic activity where the landscape changed dramatically as land was transformed from pinewoods and swamps into cotton fields. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z There was one region from which no opposition emerged: Southern slave states. Review | Illuminating slave owners’ crucial role in the expulsion of Native Americans 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z They tell us about James Buchanan’s support for slavery and his failure to head off the secession of the slave states. As the numbers of dead and unemployed grow, Trump looks and sounds smaller | Richard Wolffe 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z “Those Southern states that that flag represents were slave states,” Crawford said. Students lead protest over Confederate flag, dress code 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Southerners hated this prospect, for the admission of California without a balancing slave state would give the North a permanent advantage in the US Senate. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z The Ostend Manifesto articulated the right of the United States to forcefully seize Cuba if Spain would not sell it, while filibuster expeditions attempted to annex new slave states without the benefit of governmental approval. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The 1789 Constitution was in many ways a document meant to appease southern slave states and keep them in the union. What’s wrong with the Republicans? 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s worth mentioning first that the country’s long history of resistance through music runs directly parallel to its past as a colony, a slave state and as a military dictatorship. 'We're an open wound': São Paulo's underground music scene 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z In all the slave states, they funded universities and academies for the wealthy but blocked the establishment of common schools. When Republicans were actually republican: Is that a basis for renewal? 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The 15 slave states held 12 million Americans, nearly 40 percent of the total population, and slavery stretched from tiny Delaware to the frontier states of Texas and Missouri. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “The fact is that politically and socially and economically, Connecticut was as much a slave state as Virginia or Mississippi. … The big difference is that we hid most of our involvement because, well, we could.” Hidden history of colonial African American burials 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Confederates from Southern slave states settled much of the Southwest, and Civil War skirmishes were fought here, including the Battle of Picacho Pass, south of Phoenix. Video of Phoenix police threatening a black couple revives memories of Arizona's racism 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Confederates from southern slave states settled much of the Southwest, and Civil War skirmishes were fought here, including the Battle of Picacho Pass, south of Phoenix. Phoenix race relations tinged by Southwest’s segregated past 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet Trump boasts of his “very good,” even “excellent,” relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, inheritor of a slave state that 36,000 Americans died trying to defeat. Opinion | Trump has failed the heroes of D-Day 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The slave states subsidized transportation technology to carry exports to market, but not to build cities or internal trade. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z “We became in tune with the hardcore slave states from that point on. And we lost our opportunity to end slavery. But the insurrection got us to a point closer than we’d ever been before.” The birthplace of American slavery debated abolishing it after Nat Turner’s bloody revolt 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z As a Connecticut Yankee in the slave states, he often felt stonewalled by “planters & gentlemen” he interviewed. Opinion | Can Bar-Stool Democracy Save America? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Tyler’s main accomplishment was paving the way for the Republic of Texas to be annexed as a slave state in 1845. ‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z It is outrageous that we live in a former slave state in which there is not a single federal holiday celebrating emancipation. To fight racism, we need to think beyond reparations | Bhaskar Sunkara 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Most slave states made it illegal for a free person of color to speak or act disrespectfully to a white person, for example. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z It was illegal to return to a slave state after living in a free one. A freed slave became a spy. Then she took down the Confederate White House. 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Should I pay reparations for what slave states did even though all my grandparents came to the United States in the 20th century? Opinion | Should We Heed Calls for Reparations? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Supreme Court, whose majority hailed from slave states, saw it otherwise in 1857 with its Dred Scott decision. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z During the period between the Revolution and the Civil War, Virginia became the largest slave state and the state that saw the largest numbers of families devastated by the domestic slave trade. Analysis | The Daily 202: Ralph Northam should read these books to better understand racism, historians say 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Reflecting sectional divisions, Federalists won the Northeast while Republicans captured Pennsylvania and most of the slave states. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z When the former slaves were counted as full persons, the former slave states gained twenty congressional seats, a twenty-five-per-cent bump. The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Southerners were furious at the North’s resistance to what they saw as a legally protected system of labor and property ownership in the 15 slave states. A fanatic and 'Negro-stealer’: One of the ugliest House speaker fights in history 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Florida joined the US in 1845 as a slave state, with half its enslaved black population working on cotton and sugar plantations. Republican race-baiting dominates debate as midterm elections loom 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. – When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamations to free slaves during the Civil War, it did not apply to Kentucky, one of the few slave states that did not join the Confederacy. Civil war site in Kentucky designated as national monument 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The Market Revolution affected the free and slave states differently. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z California was not a slave state, but it enforced the law — albeit erratically. Datebook: Avant-garde graphic design, untold stories of California slavery and poetry in the sky - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In fact only 11 of the 15 slave states seceded. Review | How did America get here? Jill Lepore’s new book offers clues in our history. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In 1820, to preserve the balance of power between South and North as the country expanded, Congress passed the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free one. When the Supreme Court Lurches Right 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Hentz, 41, is from Missouri, once a violent slave state, but calls the flag just an “inanimate object,” adding: “Stop letting it control you.” Pride and prejudice? The Americans who fly the Confederate flag 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Throughout the slave states, terrified whites shuddered at tales of “the horrors of St. Domingue,” and worried that the slave attendants of planter refugees might carry revolt to local blacks. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z What the costume is really asking viewers is: do we want to live in a slave state? How The Handmaid's Tale dressed protests across the world 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z This president's undoing was his support for the Compromise of 1850, a pact between slave states and free states that was a signpost to the US Civil War. This is the US president most like Trump 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z In the following decade, the fragile consensus between American slave states and free states collapsed, making the country’s breakup inevitable and accelerating the rise of the new, anti-slavery Republican party. Frederick Douglass’ July 4 speeches trace American history 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z Maryland was a slave state, of course, but New York? Perspective | Naming rights — and wrongs: Montgomery students reveal uncomfortable truths 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z There is also a sickening parity in the statement that equates a vibrant democratic republic with a totalitarian slave state. Beware of the Korean peace trap 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “The slave states became more restrictive and more repressive, and the abolitionists became more outspoken. That helped lead to the Civil War. So there’s always room for another look at him.” Nat Turner confesses again in ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Maryland was a slave state, and many residents supported the Southern cause, with 20,000 Marylanders fighting with the Confederacy. Maryland farm has a notable, and notorious, history 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison said there should be “no union with slaveholders,” preferring disunion to association with slave states. Opinion | Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Some of them were free; even though Maryland was a slave state, many plantation owners freed their slaves long before the state outlawed slavery after the Civil War. African-American church has a history dating to 1850 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Constitution Hall played an important role during the fight over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. $18K awarded to aid restoration of Constitution Hall 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Slaves couldn’t vote, but the three-fifths clause inflated each slave state’s representation in the House of Representatives. Opinion | John Kelly’s history wasn’t wrong 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z America was 200 years a slave state; 100 years an apartheid state; and just over 50 years a non-racial democracy. Remember this about Donald Trump. He knows the depths of American bigotry | Gary Younge 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Once we’d cross the Mason-Dixon line, the historic dividing line between north and south, slave state and free, which Cincinnati nearly straddles, we’d spend two more days on the highway, almost 16 hours. In search of the American man: why I hitchhiked across the Rust Belt 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z In the early 1800s, a number of African-Americans from the Aberdeen area in Maryland migrated north, leaving the slave state of Maryland for freedom in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. African-American church has a history dating to 1850 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z No surprise since state admittance of Missouri was as a slave state under the Compromise of 1820. 'Today We Should Not Be Blue- or Red-State People’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z However, a number of slave states and territories did not join the Confederacy: Washington D.C., The importance of the fight for the South: Why it can and must be won 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z See, “Confederate” hopes to bring us right up to modern-day, when some dozen states are slave states. HBO’s ‘Confederate’: What if the South had won the Civil War? 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Matthew Fontaine Maury, a pioneering naval cartographer who attempted to form a slave state in Mexico after the South surrendered. Can Richmond avoid public rows over its Confederate statues? 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Tubman serves as a mentor to the timid Rosalee who eventually becomes more courageous as both travel to slave states to help others escape. Historic drama ‘Underground’ reflects on state of US 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Maryland was a slave state, but Baltimore was also home to the largest population of free blacks in the country. Opinion | Black and privileged until Jim Crow came and crushed a sense of dignity 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z They were first enacted in former slave states as a way to keep workers divided along racial lines and protect “convict leasing” laws. Misnamed ‘right-to-work’ laws exploit workers 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Many states were created in response to political considerations, especially the balance between free and slave states. Why Trump Had an Edge in the Electoral College 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The Electoral College system inflated the influence of these states by distributing electors in a manner that counted each slave as 3/5 of a free person, thus increasing the influence of the slave states. Electors Against Donald Trump Are Faithful Not Faithless 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z The Three-Fifths Compromise, advanced by delegates from slave states, created the Electoral College as a ploy to reduce the impact of the North’s larger populations. Electoral College outdated 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Before the Civil War, threats of nullification and secession were not limited to the slave states. To resist a Trump presidency, ask: “What would the abolitionists do?” 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Kentucky was a slave state that did not join the Confederacy. Crew begins dismantling Confederate monument in Louisville 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, was a slave state but did not join the Confederacy. Confederate monument to be moved from Louisville, Kentucky 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Were a slave state to free any blacks who then moved North, the state could actually lose electoral votes. The Troubling Reason the Electoral College Exists 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z He wavered over whom to support in the battle over whether Kansas should be a slave state or free, and then pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which complicated the issue of slavery in the territories. Some of our worst presidents had the best political résumés 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In the 1850s, Quindaro sat on the brink of Kansas Territory, and just across the river lay Missouri, a slave state. Nedra Bonds: The angry quilter - BBC News 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Maryland, straddling the North and South, was a slave state but remained in the Union during the war. Baltimore panel calls for removal of Confederate monuments 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Castle clarifies upon prompting that the reference to 1860 – the year South Carolina became the first slave state to secede from the United States – was indeed a reference to the Civil War. Bible Says No to Trump-Clinton Choice, Third-Party Candidate Says 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Ohio had been settled by a combination of evangelicals from the Northeast and a heavy dose of antislavery Quakers from North Carolina, but it also directly abutted a slave state. Ohio's Long History With the Republican Party 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Maryland remained in the Union as a border slave state, unaffected by the Emancipation Proclamation. A better honor for Teddy Roosevelt 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Substituting electors for voters conferred on the slave states a huge electoral advantage, once the first census was taken, in 1790. How to Steal an Election 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Castro is the face of the new Northern Virginia, a region of this once-ruby red, former slave state that is now home to burgeoning populations of Latinos, Asians, Middle Easterners and other non-white residents. The Decline of the White Male Voter 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Walker’s mother imparted in him that blacks should be free, so to assure that, he left the slave state of North Carolina and traveled, eventually settling in Boston 1825. Emory acquires rare anti-slavery book once owned by Du Bois 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Maryland, which is below the Mason-Dixon Line, was a slave state with strong southern sympathies, but nevertheless refused to secede from the Union. Maryland Senate OKs state song changes, cuts ‘Northern scum’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z For everyone else it’s a reminder of how China helps to perpetuate North Korea’s slave state. Outsourced to North Korea 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Perhaps it’s worth recalling that President Lincoln was insistent in his inaugural address that he would not free any slaves in slave states. The radical left has Bernie Sanders all wrong 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Missouri’s history of racial oppression dates back to the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was the last slave state admitted to the union, in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. How racial justice advocates took on Mizzou and won 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z “It’s a simulated political town hall meeting with costumed re-enactors, men and women who get up and talk about whether Kansas should be a free state or a slave state.” Lecompton museum official shares small town’s big history 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The slave states accounted for only 39% of the seats in the lower chamber when the admission of California as a free state, on Sept. 9, 1850, tipped the scales in the Senate as well. One of American History's Worst Laws Was Passed 165 Years Ago 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Whites in slave states rightfully viewed emancipation as an existential threat to their livelihood, their culture and their very lives. Wipe the Confederacy out now: Southern haters have a sick new lie designed to hold onto Confederate flags, memorials 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Earlier, when slavery was still a going concern, southerners had yearned to separate Cuba from Spain and turn it into a slave state. “The Confederate flag still flies overseas”: Endless war, domestic racism and the forgotten history of the stars and bars 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z The prospect of abolishing slavery threatened to upend the slave states’ societies and economies. The Right Way to Remember the Confederacy 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Mississippi was among the slave states that seceded from the United States in the 1860s and formed the Confederate States of America, triggering the Civil War. Mississippi's Wicker wants flag with Confederate emblem replaced 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The 150-year-old flag was originally used as a Civil War battle flag by the seven slave states that broke away from the Union in 1861. In South Carolina, shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z In the license plate case, Thomas joined the court’s four more liberal justices to block the Sons of Confederate Veterans' quest to force Texas to allow the slave states’ battle flag on novelty license plates. Justices Side With Church, Squelch Rebel Yell in Free Speech Cases 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z We succeeded in overcoming the Soviet threat because we never took it for granted, never tired, and always understood the gravity of a slave state as superpower. Don't Take an Iran Bomb Deal for Granted 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z In the territorial days, Lecompton played an important role in the bloody fight over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. Hand-sewn quilt reflects history of Lecompton 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Western territories could become slave states by popular vote. Policing While Black In NYC 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It is simply to continue a long tradition in which states, including slave states of the 18th and 19th century, use violence to prevent certain groups of human beings from moving freely.” Anger over EU's 'slave trade' rhetoric as naval operations begin in Mediterranean 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Amid fighting over whether the Kansas territory would enter the union as a free or slave state, Lecompton was the seat of government for several years. New play to debut at Constitution Hall in Lecompton 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z After Lincoln raised troops to invade the seceding seven, another four slave states left, dramatically expanding the Confederacy’s resources, including population and industry. Lessons From The Civil War 150 Years Later: U.S. Should Stop Killing People Without Good Reason 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic Monday to arguments from a Confederate heritage group that wants the battle flag of the slave states’ rebellion made available on Texas license plates. Coming Soon: Swastikas, Racial Slurs on License Plates? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z But the positives won’t resonate as loudly as they could outside of Qatar just so long as its fiercest critics can continue to call it a modern slave state. Column: After Qatar’s heat, an even bigger test for 2022 cup 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But the positives won't resonate as loudly as they could outside of Qatar just so long as its fiercest critics can continue to call it a modern slave state. Column: After Qatar's heat, an even bigger test for 2022 cup 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Duly Noted: On this date in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, granting the Show-Me State admission to the Union as a slave state. Three-Minute Briefing: Pot, Meet Kettle: 2 GOP Pols Criticizing Hillary Have Similar Email Issues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Congress had to cope with far more troublesome matters, namely the admission of Missouri as a slave state in 1820. Blessing Or Curse? The National Debt From The Founding Fathers To The Age Of Jackson 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Both were border states, and the famous Compromise made Kansas a free state and Missouri a slave state. Emporia State Lady Hornets Keep Winning Despite Turnover 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Almost certainly, he writes, Scalise showed up as “part and parcel of some ugly compromises he made while making his name in politics” in a former slave state. Long Read: Steve Scalise Feeling the Heat 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Northerners didn’t want Texas to join the Union because it did so as a slave state. The Man Who Would Be King… of Texas 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Elected as the 14th president, the handsome Mexican War veteran believed ardently in national expansion even at the cost of adding more slave states. Worst Presidents: Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Duly Noted: In 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect, following ratification by Virginia, a slave state. Three-Minute Briefing: CRomnibus Heads to Oval Office, Warren Means No and Romney Gets Support 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It was Missouri that joined the union as a slave state on 10 August 1821, then voted against secession and remained with the union, then witnessed a bloody massacre between secessionist and union loyalists. As Ferguson goes, so goes the nation. What happens to a national crisis now? 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Mark Twain, a son of Missouri, wrote in "Huckleberry Finn" about runaway Huck and fugitive slave Jim seeking freedom, rafting on the Mississippi River, away from the slave state Missouri. Ferguson Michael Brown Killing Show What's Old Is New Again in the South 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The town was the site of the territorial capital before statehood and focus of debate whether Kansas would be a free or slave state when admitted to the Union. Lecompton celebrating historic Kansas roots 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Less successfully, he proposed annexing Cuba, by arms if necessary, but his opponents, suspecting the addition of a new slave state, outed the plan and ultimately forced him to renounce it. Worst Presidents: Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, by refusing to allow the expansion of slavery into the western territories, lawmakers would ensure that the slave states were surrounded by “a cordon of freedom.” Book review: “The Scorpion’s Sting,” antislavery before Civil War, by James Oakes They would withdraw all federal support for slavery, surround the South with a “cordon of freedom,” pressuring the slave states to abolish the institution on their own. It wasn’t just Abraham Lincoln: The policies beyond Emancipation Proclamation which really helped end slavery 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Missouri was a slave state in antebellum America and the focus of festering debate in Congress during the bitter divide between North and South. Ferguson Michael Brown Killing Show What's Old Is New Again in the South 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z In reality, it served to keep the slave states happy for a long while, until it came to civil war. Why America doesn't work 2013-10-29T01:21:27Z If they deviate from the plan, they'll be out of business entirely and then their masters won't get the master/slave state of the United States they want. When ‘Flex Time’ Means Ripping Off Workers 2013-05-03T09:45:33Z As a narrow matter, the three-fifths compromise merely delayed the underlying tension over the representation of slave states within the Union. Emory board supports Wagner 2013-02-19T22:47:00Z When the slave states seceded from the Union beginning in late 1860, they were not fleeing the prospect of military emancipation, they were hoping to avoid the scorpion’s sting. It wasn’t just Abraham Lincoln: The policies beyond Emancipation Proclamation which really helped end slavery 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Racial relations still smolder in the former slave states – known as "the Slave power," among the abolitionists who resisted it. Ferguson Michael Brown Killing Show What's Old Is New Again in the South 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z In 1791, there was an abolition society in Virginia and Maryland, two slave states. The Emancipation Proclamation: Hear the Many Voices That Cried Freedom 2013-01-01T10:50:21Z The system was set up when the United States was founded, as a compromise between slave states and free states. Sandy's winds of uncertainty blow through U.S. presidential race 2012-11-05T16:50:55Z And it should be recalled that the slave states, including Virginia, had the greatest power and influence in the colonies. Noam Chomsky on post-legal America 2012-07-23T14:37:00Z In the same year, there were 56,649 mulattoes in the free states; but for the most part they were not born there—they came from the slave states. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Rickey was probably aware that any attempts to sign blacks in Missouri, a former slave state, would be met with hostility. Branch Rickey Found Inspiration in Catcher?s Tears 2012-04-14T17:07:48Z There is no slave market, and no slave trade, nothing to be compared with what took place in the slave states of North America, or even to the restricted traffic in Russia before the emancipation. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z Persons dwelling in regions which slavery has not debased can hardly imagine the malice and ferocity manifested by the rebel vixens of the slave states. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields 2012-01-07T03:00:15.907Z Either slavery or freedom must rule this country, or there must be a final separation of the free and the slave states. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z This compromise was favorable to the slave states in that it gave them an increased number of representatives, but it was unfavorable in that it increased their proportion of direct taxes. Government in the United States National, State and Local 2011-11-16T03:00:28.590Z The Northern Democrats in the House returned in a resentful spirit at the support rendered Taylor by eight slave states. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Himself a slave-holder, from a slave state, he was one of the earliest and most vehement advocates of the extension of our free territory northwards along the Pacific coast. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Over the years Lincoln backed various schemes for gradual, compensated emancipation, in which slave states might free enslaved African Americans only gradually, and the federal government would compensate slaveowners. The president wins another round 2011-07-23T00:44:00Z Consequently, President Buchanan's assertion that Kansas was then as much a slave state as Georgia or South Carolina was unfounded and preposterous. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The north began treating the south like a slave state, expropriating vast plots of private and public land for northerners, along with the oil profits. Magazine Preview: Yemen on the Brink of Hell 2011-07-21T01:01:35Z The strange fact above all is that the admission of Kansas as a slave state against the wishes of its people was not asked for by the South. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z The settlers of Texas had come mainly, it is true, from the slave states; but there were also many who had been born north of the Ohio. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z Obama explained that even though Lincoln opposed slavery, his Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in states that were fighting against the Union; it didn't apply to slave states that were Union allies. Arianna Huffington v. Frederick Douglass 2011-07-19T04:19:00Z Kansas, did Douglas intend it to be a slave state? The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z For one thing, Kentucky never joined the Confederacy, even though it was a slave state. The Confederacy comes to Kentucky 2011-05-18T13:30:00Z From the year 1856 Missouri, which was a slave state, warred with Kansas, which was a free state, and there was much barbarity along the border. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z As the Greek city states were slave states, and most of the manual work was performed by slaves, that necessary part of the training of the youth of the community is ignored. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The northern line, from the names of the surveyors, is commonly known as "Mason and Dixon's line," so often referred to as the demarcation of the slave states from the others. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z It was a compromise made in order to admit Missouri into the Union as a slave state, in 1820. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Historically, the first center of population in 1790 resided in Kent County, Md., 23 miles east of Baltimore, the fulcrum between Pennsylvania and New York in the North and slave states in the South. Census shows population center moving out of Midwest 2011-03-08T23:40:00Z Southerners began to dream of annexations to the south of them in Mexico and the West Indies, and of great slave state, detached from the North and reaching to Panama. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z But there is no doubt that what it did in reconstructing the old slave states was meant to be thorough. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Thirteen of these men had engaged in border warfare in Kansas, in a successful effort to prevent Kansas from becoming a slave state. The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It 2011-03-02T03:00:26.877Z Kansas is, therefore, at this moment as much a slave state as Georgia, or South Carolina. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z Then, in his annual message, he enjoyed a "Mission Accomplished" moment by declaring that "Kansas is ... at this moment as much a slave state as Georgia and South Carolina." Who's the worst president of them all? 2011-02-21T12:30:00Z Showing how coming poor from a slave state, he was helped to be what he was, by the free state of Illinois. Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln 2011-01-21T03:00:11.447Z And this is substantially true of almost everyone of the old slave states whether they have or have not revised their constitutions. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z The Bahamas, the old staging post for British gun-running to the southern US slave states of the Confederacy, was perfect. The truth about tax havens: part 2 2011-01-09T22:09:13Z We need not assume, however, that he intended to do more than give the Missourians a chance to make Kansas a slave state if they could, for Douglas was not a pro-slavery man at heart. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z After fierce debate, the Senate approved the bill admitting Kansas as a slave state, but the House of Representatives did not. Who's the worst president of them all? 2011-02-21T12:30:00Z Mr. Lincoln was opposed to this, and wanted no more slave states added to the Union. Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln 2011-01-21T03:00:11.447Z It was at the bottom of the fierce cry which rose all over that section at the close of that war, "No more slave territory, no more slave states." The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z They threaten to tear apart the country, just as the Southern slave states did by seceding and then by engaging in an armed rebellion against the United States. How the South rationalizes secession 2010-12-19T16:01:00Z In 1819, Alabama, a new slave state, was admitted to the Union and there was no new free state to balance it. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The U.S. did not recognize Haiti until 1862, after the secession of its own slave states. 2010-01-23T06:15:00Z They have been largely introduced at the South and West, but principally in the slave states, where the management of the team devolves upon the ignorant and heedless. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Outside of the slave states, equal participation in the government by all citizens has been the foundation stone of the Republic. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z By act of the 15th of June 1836 it was admitted into the Union as a slave state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" These measures were extremely distasteful to the Democrats and especially so to those of the border slave states. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z The loss became greater as the likelihood of Missouri's admittance as a slave state increased. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Two days later the slave state of Virginia hung Edwin Coppock by the neck until he was dead. Labor and Freedom But while the resolution which embodied this rather doubtful remedy referred to states in general, it was intended when read between the lines, to refer to slave states in particular. The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) 2011-03-03T03:00:50.323Z Although he lived in a slave state, he was finally moved by conscientious scruples to free his slaves. The Story of Our Hymns But for this, four of the slave states would now be free. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution The admission of Missouri as a slave state would naturally lead pro-slavery emigrants to go to that state instead of to Illinois. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Mr. Thompson had shown the better part of valor, discretion, in taking care never to visit any of the slave states. Discussion on American Slavery This was a slave state, and he hoped many of the people would join his army. The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read I saw a stranger, from one of the slave states, of tolerably genteel appearance, in the prime of life, destitute of property, and unqualified for any occupation whatever. American Slave Trade or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers take Free People from some of the United States of America, and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves in other of the States; and of the horrible Cruelties practised in the carrying on of this most infamous Traffic Indeed, the constitutions of most of the slave states have provisions for this writ, which, as has been before shown, denies the right of property in man. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Stringent as was the code of 1819, it was of a type that was common in the slave states. The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 Of the two states which were lately added, one was a slave state and the other free. Discussion on American Slavery He was then ordained as minister of a Unitarian congregation at Louisville, Kentucky, which was then a slave state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Half wages are already virtually paid for slave labor in the system of tasks which, in an unwilling spirit of compromise, most of the slave states have already been compelled to adopt. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War The constitutions of some of the slave states have provisions like this, viz., that all laws previously in force, shall remain in force until repealed, unless repugnant to this constitution. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery This great constitutional revolution in the status of the Negro laid the basis for a political revolution in the old slave states also. The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16 Were an abolition bill to pass the House of Representatives to-day, the whole six thousand could be removed to a neighboring slave state before it could be taken up in the Senate to-morrow. Discussion on American Slavery How ought local self-government to be reconstituted in the old slave states was the momentous question to be answered at close of the war. Charles Sumner Centenary The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 The first attack on British power, and the aggressions of its parliament, ever made on this continent, was made by a slaveholder, from a slave state, Patrick Henry, May 30, 1765. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery The second compromise was between the free and the slave states. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools He believed also, that, whatever it was, that writing had been uttered by him in a slave state. Discussion on American Slavery In the slave states in place of "man" stood "freeman". The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens The gentleman who was selected to lead their armies, as commander-in-chief, and who did lead them successfully, to victory and the independence of the country, was a slave owner, from a slave state, George Washington. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. The slave states, in proportion to their population, contribute nothing like an equal or equitable share to the aggregate of national wealth. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Without this compromise, however, they believed that nine slave states would never adopt the Constitution, and doubtless they were right. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools Would not the mere knowledge of the fact, that 'they were not inhabitants of slave states' render it unnecessary that his hearers should be particularly informed that they were not slaveholders? Discussion on American Slavery The rights thus formally declared belonged originally to all the "inhabitants", in the slave states to all the "whites". The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens The gentleman who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was a slave owner, from a slave state, Thomas Jefferson. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. Or whether, as in slave states, half of them shall be burning to join the enemy, with the purpose of satisfying with blood the long account of wrong that shall have accrued against their oppressors? The Unconstitutionality of Slavery It has already been suggested that this was probably the best land in the slave states, save the alluvial bottoms. The Negro Farmer This is slavery as it is daily exhibited in every slave state. Discussion on American Slavery I’d never stop till I reached the men who fight against slave states. The Bondwoman The only secretary that congress ever had, was a slave owner from a slave state, Charles Thompson. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. This latter is really the doctrine of some of the slave states—the "state-rights" doctrine, so called. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Virginia, the most populous slave state, the nursery of slaves, must, scorpion-like, be surrounded with glowing contraband camps. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Farming we all know, means in the slave states, 'slaveholding and slave-driving.' Discussion on American Slavery This act admitted Missouri as a slave state. History Plays for the Grammar Grades The gentleman who was president of the convention, to form the constitution of the United States, was a slave holder, from a slave state, George Washington. The Negro: what is His Ethnological Status? 2nd Ed. Is it a thing of no moment, whether we have given such a pledge to free or to slave states? The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Even your own religious missionaries at Sierra Leone denounce it "as worse than the slave state in Africa." Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject That Synod embraces the whole state of Kentucky, which is one of the largest slave states in the Union. Discussion on American Slavery She was a bark, and Dan could only hope that she was not bound to any port in the slave states. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives The slave power was in control of the Federal Government, and in order to maintain its authority, it needed new slave states to offset the free states that were being carved out of the Northwest. The American Empire The second compromise, at the cost of giving disproportionate weight to the slave states, gained their support for the more perfect union that was about to be formed. The Critical Period of American History I do not believe that creed, left to itself, would ever have founded a state; and I am pretty certain that, left to itself, it would never have overthrown a slave state. What I Saw in America In a slave state, the slaves rule: in Mayfair, the tradesman rules. Maxims for Revolutionists So would thousands of mothers in these border slave states, if I put them to the test. A Man of the People A Drama of Abraham Lincoln We have a slave state, the exploiters and the exploited, the "haves" and the "have nots." A Dominie in Doubt If a meeting of the people were to take place in a slave state, would the slaves vote? The Critical Period of American History Yes, 'um, Kentucky was a regular slave state——a genuine slave state. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Those Missourians who were for slavery wanted Kansas admitted as a slave state, and sought to accomplish it by the most strenuous efforts. The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself The close relations between the cotton manufacturers of England and the vast cotton producers of the South created a public sentiment in England in favour of the slave states. Sixty years with Plymouth Church By that census the free States had a population fifty per cent. above the population of the slave states, slaves included, and the disparity was rapidly increasing. History of the United States, Volume 3 This, I suppose, was the first petition of the kind ever offered in the slave states. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 That as she increased her slave states, so did she give employment, land, and power to those who were indifferent to all law, human or divine. Diary in America, Series One Like conventions were held in Indiana and other free States, organizations effected, and candidates nominated, while the movement extended to the border slave states, in which it afterward did excellent service. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 The first national event in which the church took a definite part, so far as I remember, was the question as to whether Kansas should be a free or a slave state. Sixty years with Plymouth Church The hostility to slavery had grown chiefly out of the acquisition of Texas as a slave state. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. We can run a lot of slaves through from almost any of the bordering slave states into Canada within 48 hours and we defy the slaveholders and their abettors to beat that if they can.... The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 The agitation under the Indiana government for the further recognition of slavery in the Territory was mainly instigated by the Illinois slave-holders and their sympathizers among the American settlers from the slave states. The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818 At the beginning of the Dark Ages the great pagan cosmopolitan society now grown Christian was as much a slave state as old South Carolina. A Short History of England I had heard, before I visited the slave states in the West, appalling stories of the cruelty and barbarity of masters to slaves. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 The first great controversy that grew out of slavery was whether Missouri should be admitted into the Union as a slave state, and whether slavery should exist in the western territories. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. I am no apologist for slavery; I deeply lament its existence; but I believe that there is as much suffering in coal pits and manufacturing districts of England as in our southern slave states. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Even Seward suggested a constitutional amendment guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in the slave states for all time. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian And have we not invaded openly, and sword in hand, another of her provinces, and all to effect her dismemberment, and to add ten more slave states to our confederacy? Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Hundreds of thousands of slaves came from this zone to the West Indies, and to the slave states of North and South America. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 This compromise measure fixed the boundary line between free and slave states in all the territories then belonging to the United States. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. And now the sight of some negroes reminded him that he was for the first time in his life in a slave state. The Drummer Boy Lincoln, with the training of the lawyer, the wily cross-examiner, the profound jurist, the farsighted statesman, forced Douglas into a dilemma between the northern Democrats of Illinois and the southern Democrats of the slave states. Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 Of the slave states he was sure, from both affinity and policy. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. And you have been sold and run away in nearly every slave state? The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times They went to vote, and with the avowed design to make Kansas a slave state. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. This, however, applies especially to the former slave states. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro I once, however, and papa twice, crossed the Ohio in a steamboat, and took a walk in the opposite slave state of Kentucky. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 In this instance the slave states have clung together in one unbroken phalanx, and have been victorious by the means of accomplices and deserters from the ranks of freedom. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. For this reason it happened that when Lincoln became President most of the slave states resolved to leave the Union, and, if necessary, to make war rather than be compelled to stay in it. The Beginner's American History They said the 30th day of March was an important day, as Kansas would be made a slave state on that day. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Eight-tenths of the Negroes are at present in the old slave states, and if they remain there, which is very questionable, they will never be brought into the political, religious and social fabrics. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro We left St. Louis, and were glad to escape for a time at least out of a slave state. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 The slave states are free to continue or abolish slavery. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. During the war President Lincoln gave the slaves their freedom in all the states which were fighting against the Union, and those in the other slave states got their freedom later. The Beginner's American History The Supreme Court was composed of 5 Democrats from the slave states, and 2 Democrats and 2 Whigs from the free states. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. I came from a slave state, but my family is of New England blood and breeding. The Devil's Own A Romance of the Black Hawk War Papa said, "It is a great shame making Missouri a slave state." First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 You find extreme inequalities of distribution in practically all forms of society—in the slave state, the feudal state, in India and in China to-day. Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 He was elected by a party in the North that was determined that slaves should not be taken into free states or territories, and that no more slave states should be made. The Beginner's American History Both were southern men and both wished to see Kansas a slave state, but both were honorable men who would not seek to gain their ends by dishonest means. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Go either way, and he in the majority of instances must run the gauntlet of the slave states. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States The omnibus at last crossed the river by a very fine suspension bridge, and, having left the slave states behind us, we found ourselves in the free State of Ohio. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they issued a declaration of independence signed mainly by Americans from the slave states. History of the United States How did most of the people of the slave states feel when Lincoln became President? The Beginner's American History But we never did propose, and do not now propose, to interfere with slavery in the slave states. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. That if the Convention should adopt it, that those delegates who lived near the borders of the slave states, would not dare to return to their homes. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America Strange to say, that doughty old hero chose to forget the matter long years afterwards, when Benton was in the Senate—a Union senator from the slave state of Missouri. American Men of Action Thus, as each new free soil state knocked for admission into the union, the South could demand as the price of its consent a new slave state. History of the United States Fifty per cent more, than white labor ordinarily costs in the slave states. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery Mr. Van Buren was running for President as a Barn-burner on a platform which declared that there should be no more slave states, and no more slave territory. Children of the Market Place It is a matter of fact, that at that time, and in consequence of the threatened revolution, the slave states talked strongly of emancipation. Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America There is no legal marriage among the slaves of the South; I never saw nor heard of such a thing in my life, and I have been through seven of the slave states. Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself Michigan.—In accordance with a well-established custom, a free state was admitted to the union to balance a slave state. History of the United States And, Edward Everett, moreover, tells us that the northern States "deemed it a point of the highest policy, to enter with the slave states into the present Union." A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery He had loved a drink, a game of cards; he was a slave owner, from a slave state; he had not been consistent in his thinking and his preachment. Children of the Market Place Hundreds of Negroes visited the slave states to entice the slaves away, and the list of Underground Railroad operators given by Siebert contains one hundred and twenty-eight names of Negroes. The Negro But they did not foresee the fact, that the laying of direct taxes would be unnecessary, and that the slave states would consequently escape taxation for their slaves. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Of these, five were called from slave states and four from free states. History of the United States They will soon be legislated out of the free states, and their condition in the slave states, must necessarily be one of wretchedness and degradation. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery On the point of my wanting to make war between the free and the slave states, there has been no issue between us. Children of the Market Place His father, though resident in a slave state, was never a slaveholder; but was heartily an Abolitionist in principle. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. Free colored persons have sometimes been arrested, and, on false testimony, delivered to claimants, taken to slave states and held as slaves. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. Texas, it was said, could be divided into four slave states. History of the United States Throughout the slave states, at that time, the necessity of enlightening the minds, and ameliorating the conditions of the slaves was generally seen, felt, and acknowledged. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery What was the difference between this and girding the slave states around with freedom? Children of the Market Place One hundred dollars each will be paid for the delivery of the above slaves if taken in a slave state, or two hundred dollars each if taken in a free state. The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. How are the slave states benefited by this arrangement as to taxes? The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. The Republican Convention.—With the Whigs definitely forced into a separate group, the Republican convention at Chicago was fated to be sectional in character, although five slave states did send delegates. History of the United States Had not the free states relinquished all right to interfere with slavery in the slave states, no union of the slave and free states could ever have taken place. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery So could this country stand divided into free and slave states as it was formed at the beginning. Children of the Market Place She was absolutely illiterate, with no knowledge of geography, and yet year after year she penetrated the slave states and personally led North over three hundred fugitives without losing a single one. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Such is true of those human beings in the slave states, called overseers. The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington In all the fifteen slave states the variety of opinion was marked. History of the United States There is at last no sympathy between the two races, except in the slave states. A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery M.G., through the laws of the slave states, is perfectly illiterate; his pronunciation being the only guide. Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America The South hoped for a division of this large tract into five slave states. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War "A friend!" said Uncle Nathan, with some doubt, as he reflected on the conflict between the claims of humanity and the stringent laws of the slave states. Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue The Spaniards had made California a slave state, but the gold seekers by vote declared her free. The Way of a Man He knew that prohibition in the territories would result in no more slave states and no slave territory. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him New Jersey, in which that place lies, is not a slave state. Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America In 1792 Kentucky, cut off from Virginia, entered as a slave state, and in 1796 Tennessee, given up by North Carolina, came in as a slave State. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War Charged with kidnapping two men, whom they conveyed to a slave state, and sold as slaves. The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 There is just about as much freedom of opinion and individual independence in Parliament as there could be in a slave state. Ireland Since Parnell In fact, however, this was but an effort by Seward, Secretary of State for the North, to influence British and European opinion against the seceding slave states of the South. Great Britain and the American Civil War The treatment of slaves is mildest near the borders, where the free and slave states join: it becomes more severe, the farther we go from the free states. Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America Mason's and Dixon's line, which was an imaginary boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, was recognized as the division line between the free and slave states. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War On the contrary, I would like to see every Union man in the border slave states remain firm at his post. Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister, 1857-78 The first station was Chester: thence across the Schuylkill and Potomac to Wilmington; and crossed the Delaware and Susquehanna into Maryland—the first slave state I had been in. Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic They had not made Kansas a slave state, but they had seen a Yankee trick. Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler All through the slave states there are patrols; they are so numerous that they cannot be easily escaped. Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America In 1812 Louisiana, a slave state, came in to make the eighteenth addition. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War The plans for converting California into a slave state were frustrated by the discovery of gold. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History After dinner we proceeded per rail to Washington City, through Delaware, another slave state; but am happy to say both this and Maryland are wearing out—that is, they will soon be free. Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic In the first half of the nineteenth century it separated the free states from the slave states. A Short History of the United States It seems that there has been a very general panic in this part of the slave states lately, occasioned by some injudicious missionary preaching, which was pronounced to be of a decidedly abolitionist tendency. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 Mississippi was admitted as a state in 1817 with slaves; Illinois in 1818, free; and Alabama, in 1819, slave, making twenty-two states, eleven free, and eleven slave states—an equal division. Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War Abolitionists were active in the north and there were those who assisted slaves across the boundary lines between free and slave states. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Florida Narratives It was erected by the slave state of Maryland. Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic Missouri would be a slave state, and these Northerners did not want any more slave states. A Short History of the United States This was in a slave state, and here I saw the first negro auction. Death Valley in '49 Into the agitation was suddenly thrust the application of Missouri for entrance into the Union as a slave state. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia The Commonwealth of Kentucky, having for a northern boundary the Ohio River—the dividing line between the northern free states and the southern slave states has always been regarded as a southern state. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Pennsylvania being on the frontier of the slave states, runaways were often passing through; and the laws on that subject were little understood, and less attended to. Isaac T. Hopper Having founded a slave state, it was only right that the state should be admitted to the Union. A Short History of the United States The liberty of the press is by no means tolerated in the slave states, as both judges and juries will always decide according to the local laws, although totally at variance with the constitution. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America In 1792 Kentucky was admitted to the Union, the article on slavery in her constitution encouraging the system and discouraging emancipation, and Tennessee also entered as a slave state in 1796. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia When Missouri came in, Illinois also was admitted—one free against one slave state. The Purchase Price After travelling through three slave states I am obliged to go back to theory to raise any abhorrence of it. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime The free states were growing faster than were the slave states and would probably keep on growing faster. A Short History of the United States The mass of those persons were Georgians, Virginians, and Kentuckians, whose comparative poverty rendered their residence in slave states unpleasant. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America After a while the slave raised the important question: Had not his residence outside of a slave state made him a free man? A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia Missouri would break the balance of power if she came alone and unpaired as a slave state, so the North paired her with Maine, and let her in, with a string tied to her! The Purchase Price Whips and chains, oaths and brutality, are as common, for all that one sees, in the free as the slave states. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime For these reasons the Southerners would not consent to the admission of Maine as a free state unless at the same time Missouri was admitted as a slave state. A Short History of the United States The Anti-Slavery Societies took ground against the admission into the Union of the territory of Missouri as a slave state. A Visit to the United States in 1841 "No more slave states, no more slave territories." A School History of the United States But in 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and this turned the stream of southern migration aside from Illinois to Missouri. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins That we shall not include in the list those crimes which are ordinarily committed in the free, as well as in the slave states. 2d. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 After a long struggle Maine and Missouri were both admitted--the one as a free state, the other as a slave state. A Short History of the United States Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana were admitted, one by one, into the Union; and all were slave states. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans Buchanan, however, paid no attention to the action of the free settlers, but sent the Lecompton constitution to Congress and urged it to admit Kansas as a slave state. A School History of the United States If they were to be counted, the relative weight of the slave states in all matters of national legislation would be much increased. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins Every slave state has its race course, and in the older states almost every county has one on a small scale. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 Trace on a map the line between the free states and the slave states. A Short History of the United States The Missouri Compromise provided that Missouri should be a slave state; this was to satisfy the South. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans The resources of the slave states were boundless, but no free man would go in to develop them. A School History of the United States In later times, after all the states north of Maryland had abolished slavery, Mason and Dixon's line became famous as the boundary between slave states and free states. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins Before proceeding to furnish details of certain classes of crimes in the slave states, we advertise the reader—1st. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 Why were the free states gaining faster than the slave states? d. A Short History of the United States Texas joined the United States and became a slave state. Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans Why did the States secede?%—Why did the Southern slave states secede? A School History of the United States As soon as the Northern states had begun to abolish slavery, runaways from the slave states in the South began to trickle into the North. The Black Experience in America We now proceed to the remaining slave states. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 If it were admitted to the Union, it would surely be a slave state or, perhaps, several slave states. A Short History of the United States It was called the "Free Soil Party," and the principle for which it contended was this: "No more slave states and no slave territory." Four Great Americans: Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln A Book for Young Americans In 1865 there were thirty-six states in the Union, and of these, sixteen free, and eleven slave states ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, and so made it part of the Constitution. A School History of the United States The writer has lived, for many years, on the frontier-line of slave states, and has had great opportunities of observation among those who formerly were slaves. Uncle Tom's Cabin To insert the criminal statistics of the remaining slave states in detail, as those of the states already considered have been presented, would, we find, fill more space than can well be spared. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 Every one admitted that Texas must be a slave state. A Short History of the United States He was, in fact, just commencing to lay the foundation of his fortune, as fortune is regarded in a slave state. My Bondage and My Freedom But in 1790 New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and all the states south of these were slave states. A School History of the United States It was customary in the slave states to allow slaves to hire themselves for their masters to such as the slaves themselves desired to work for. Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson The reader will perceive, from these preliminaries, that only a small proportion of the crimes actually perpetrated in the respective slave states during the period selected, will be entered upon this list. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 For they had thought that California would surely be a slave state. A Short History of the United States The competition, and its injurious consequences, will, one day, array the nonslaveholding white people of the slave states, against the slave system, and make them the most effective workers against the great evil. My Bondage and My Freedom Slavery was also gradually abolished in New York and New Jersey, so that of the original thirteen only six were now to be counted as slave states. A School History of the United States Missouri sought admission into the Union, and it was attempted to admit her as a slave state. The Nation in a Nutshell Yet these amusements are attended by thousands in every part of the slave states. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 It will be remembered that in 1820 Missouri had been admitted to the Union as a slave state. A Short History of the United States And yet I am bound to say that they fall short of indicating the horrible cruelties constantly practiced in the slave states. My Bondage and My Freedom Kentucky was originally part of Virginia, and when it was admitted, came in as a slave state. A School History of the United States It may be argued that H.M.G. would thus be giving … moral support to a man who will rule over a slave state…. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 A very few slaveholders in each of the slave states have been men of ripe education, to whom our national literature is much indebted. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 President Buchanan sent this constitution to Congress and asked to have Kansas admitted as a slave state. A Short History of the United States St. Michael's, the village in which was now my new home, compared favorably with villages in slave states, generally. My Bondage and My Freedom The petitioners did not say whether they would make a slave or a free state; but as the Missourians owned slaves, everybody knew that Missouri would be a slave state. A School History of the United States The border slave states of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, under Mr. Lincoln's conservative leadership, will never secede. The Man in Gray No one of the slave states has probably so much general education as Virginia. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 Of the whole population of thirty-one millions only twelve millions lived in the slave states, and of these more than four millions were negro slaves. A Short History of the United States The nearer are the lines of a slave state and the borders of a free one, the greater the peril. My Bondage and My Freedom We must, then, have some place to send our surplus slaves, or the present slave states will become a black America. %310. A School History of the United States No, sir, I never was a slave, nor was I ever in a slave state. A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences |
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