The Whigs believed in a "loose construction" of the Constitution which included supporting big government with a national bank and the congressional regulation of the expansion of slavery.

From the London Times. The American Union owes its territorial aggrandizement to Slavery, and its commercial strongth to freedom. The two systems of labor are not unlike their products.

1908 - Israel Zangwill's play about immigrants in America becomes one of the most ... War as the punishment of a just God for the sin of slavery. But Zangwill had found exactly the right metaphor ...

All of these approaches misrepresent the liaison between the Founding Father and his female possession because they ignore the sexual exploitation and family losses inscribed across the Hemings family ...

The hatred of America and of capitalism is what animates the entire slave narrative in your kid's college. Yes, Corey glossed over that the US ended slavery for the rest of the world. While ...

Likewise, New Orleans--being the center of the American slave trade--had already taken on special significance in the history of black music-making in America. The most interesting reference to ...

They failed to foresee how developments like the cotton gin and American expansion into the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi Delta would vastly increase slavery’s profitability, creating a whole ...