A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

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Published in the June 2, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly, The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire" illustrated how Africans travelled on the upper deck of the ship. On board the ship were 510 captives ...

A fracture point was reached in 1860 when Abraham Lincoln, an opponent of slavery, was elected to the presidency, spurring several state legislatures to openly debate an act of secession from the ...

The Omaha Nebraskian, of the 10th, states that the bill abolishing Slavery in Nebraska Territory ... from and after the 1st day of July, A.D. 1860. The bill passed the House by a vote of 19 ...

whose members were strongly opposed to the westward expansion of slavery into new states, was gaining prominence. The election of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal.

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 ...