On December 18, 1860, a man by the name of John Jordan Crittenden approached the House of Representatives and Senate with a proposal, which had previously failed, that would lead to the Civil War. This Compromise, the Crittenden Compromise, was an attempt to preserve slavery and the Union itself that was being threaten by secession. […]
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When the Constitution was developed at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, the founders refused to address the slavery laws in order to reach a compromise between the North and the South. Slavery was a divisive issue at the Convention, and the northern delegates felt better to ratify the Constitution than to dissolve the Union over […]
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Eleven-year-old Olaudah Equiano is carelessly tossed aboard a slave ship as cargo. He looks around helplessly at the horrible men with their light complexions and long hair and is sure that they mean to eat him. After he refuses to eat the food they offer him, he is tied down and severely flogged. The Interesting […]
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The bloodiest war in American History was the Civil War (1861-1865). It is widely known as The Brother’s War’. During its four year term, over 620,000 solders were killed or missing in action, and countless others were left maimed with rope burns, severed limbs, swamp rot, and many other various ailments. The total Northern and […]
Slavery can often be thought of as one of the most devastating racial events in our nation’s and world’s history. Slavery was first introduced into the British colonies in 1619, but slavery existed years before present day America. The service was abolished from the United in 1865 by the 13th amendment to the African Constitution. […]