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* Morgan, Edmund S. ''American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia'' (1975) Pulitzer Prize[

#The new constitution must abolish slavery, punish Confederate leaders by distributing their property, and repudiate d

*Berlin, Ira. ''Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America'' 1998 ...novese, Eugene. ''Roll Jordan Roll'' (1976), the most influential study of slavery

===Black Loyalists and slavery===

...te to help lead the Civil War. Sumner was a leading exponent of abolishing slavery to weaken the Confederacy. Although he kept on good terms with Abraham Linc ...ly concerned that captured territories would expand [[slavery in the U.S. |slavery]] westward. In 1847, the vigor with which Sumner denounced a Boston congres

===Slavery=== ...that "rapidly increasing mechanization after 1850 would have soon rendered slavery obsolete anyhow. It would have been better for the USA to endure it a few

{{see also|U.S. slavery era}} All the American colonies had slavery, but it was usually the form of personal servants in the North (where 2% of

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...nerations erred by being caught up in the social maelstrom of their times (slavery, eugenics… )”.<ref>Pilar Ossorio and Troy Duster (2005): ‘Race and Ge ...ology and psychology have at various times racially justified colonialism, slavery and disenfranchisement. Medicine's own intersections with concepts of race

===Debt Slavery===

...blicans) and made the ''Tribune'' its unofficial national organ. He fought slavery extension and the slave power on every page. On the eve of the Civil War c ..., Greeley argued that the war was over, the Confederacy was destroyed, and slavery was dead — and that [[Reconstruction]] was a success, so it was time to p

...'. University of Florida Press. (1973)[http://www.questia.com/library/book/slavery-and-plantation-growth-in-antebellum-florida-1821-1860-by-julia-floyd-smith.

...r being the first of their kind in America. His proposals to gradually end slavery were not reported out of committee. ...once a territory reached a certain population. Jefferson would not allow slavery in the territories. Many of Jefferson's ideas were passed into law after he

:"current Democratic party" indeed. it used to be the party of slavery, white supremacy, segregation.

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...xico and California. He feared that, because of the controversy regarding slavery in the territories, annexation might lead to a disunion threat, as in fact ==Slavery==

...Confederacy, led by Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee'' and ended slavery. Following the war, the southern states were readmitted into the Union duri ...ay Confederacy, led by Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee and ended slavery." Parenthetic expressions -- particularly those as long as "led by Abraham

...1): 25-49. ISSN: 0016-8297 </ref> Under slavery, marriages were informal; slavery disrupted many families as did wartime chaos. Many Freedmen attempted to f

...ithin the larger American society, African American culture, [[racism]], [[slavery]], and [[equality]]. African American writing has also tended to incorporat ...vil War]], African American literature primarily focused on the issue of [[slavery]], as indicated by the subgenre of [[slave narrative]]s. At the turn of the

...|Republican Party]], which claimed success in saving the Union, abolishing slavery, enfranchising the freedmen, and adopting as well many of the [[Whig Party] ...alists, Scandinavian Lutheran) dominated the GOP and pushed it toward anti-slavery and anti-liquor positions. Liturgical voters (Catholic, Episcopalian, Germa