Slave states vs. free states, 2012 A century and a half later, we've come full circle: The red-blue state divide falls along Confederate-Union lines . By Michael Lind ...

In Louisiana, a former slave-holding state, voters rejected a ballot question known as Amendment 7 that asked whether they supported a constitutional amendment to prohibit the use of involuntary ...

When the Civil War began in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln feared that some Northern states might also secede. To reduce the risk, Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed only those enslaved ...

banning slavery above the 36°30′ north line close latitude 36°30′ north A circle of latitude which was used to divide the prospective slave and free states west of the Mississippi River ...

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery.

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The Dobbs decision, which gives states complete control over abortion laws, has unleashed conflicts that resemble the battles that arose when enslaved people fled slave states for free states, and ...

Of course the Civil War was about slavery, and everyone knew it at the time. No, Nikki Haley, it wasn’t about states’ rights, except to the extent that Southern states were trying to force ...