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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...
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Fugitive Slaves and Northern Racism
The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act When California, one of the territories gained by the U.S. in the Mexican War, petitioned to become a state, the controversy over whether slavery ...
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Slavery and the Civil WarRise of the Republican Party in the 1850s
The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.
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The East African Slave Trade
African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ... who established a trading and raiding state in the 1850's which linked up with the Ovimbundu in what is now modern Angola The most famous trader ...
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Underground Railroad
In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...