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After Tuesday’s vote, more than a dozen state constitutions include language permitting slavery and involuntary servitude for prisoners.
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...
This right is limited, in various ways, by the Constitution--the most conspicuous restriction upon it being that of the Senate, in which large States have no more power than small ones, and which ...
free states and the Southern slave states. This was not to last for long. As more people from both the North and the South were moving west, the issue of slavery started to create problems.
Revise attitudes to slavery, causes of the civil war and the rise of the republican party in the 1850s with BBC Bitesize National 5.
In his conclusion, Grant noted that maintaining slavery was difficult when much of the nation consisted of free states, so the slave states in effect demanded control over free-state policies.
New Jersey didn’t end slavery with the Civil War Many Northern Democrats, not just in New Jersey, were pro-slavery or at least tolerated it, believing it was the states’ right to choose. Economic ...
Jean Pfaelzer discusses recasting history in 'California, a Slave State,' which tracks the record of racism and forced labor that drove the state's 'startup' culture.
Fights over fugitive slave laws pitted states against each other and showcased the risks of the federal government not supporting liberty.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting ...