The Heritage of The South A History of the Introduction of Slavery; Its Establishment From Colonial Times and Final Effect Upon the Politics of the United States

In order to understand the status of the slave trade and slavery in the United States after their independence was achieved, it is necessary to glance at the progress of the Rev...

Very shortly after the organization of the government under the new Constitution, petitions upon the subject of the slave trade began to be presented to Congress, mostly from th...

The first permanent settlement within the limits of the United States--as they became afterwards--to be established, was that of Florida, which was begun by the Spaniards in the...

The causes which led to the secession of the Southern States have never been given, and when they are compared with those which led to the American Revolution as given by the Fi...

In connection with this claim of the slave power were the most shocking misrepresentations of the condition of the slaves themselves and of the social relations of the Southern...

The "Border Slave States," as they were called, including North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, which immediately joined the "Cotton States" on the south, though equally appre...

The struggle for independence made by the Southern States of the American Union, grew out of questions of self government arising mainly in regard to the institution of African...