The American Civil War could have ended without the abolition of slavery. Such an outcome is difficult to imagine because Americans tend to frame the end of slavery as part of the nation's ...

None of reader C. Lyon’s arguments mitigates against slavery’s primary role in the Civil War (“Civil War wasn’t all about slavery,” April 12). For example:1) West Virginia was admitted ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

After the Civil War, the U.S. abolished slavery nationwide. The Emancipation Proclamation freed millions of slaves. But the status of those former slaves and newly emancipated slaves post-war was ...

A recent study of the secession crisis states that during the war, slavery was abolished “inadvertently.” Contemporary scholarship is saturated by this neo-revisionist premise.

Michael Vorenberg, Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001) Michael P. Zuckert, Completing the Constitution: The Thirteenth Amendment , 4 Const ...

In 1864, Arkansas abolished slavery, the first state to do so in 60 years. By the close of the Civil War, there were 27 free and nine slave states, just enough to change America’s founding legal ...

Slavery caused the Civil War. More exactly, the economics of slavery caused the Civil War. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley made news last month when she was asked at a New Hampshire ...

But 12 hours later, Haley back-pedaled on her comments, with her campaign disseminating a Thursday morning radio interview in which she said, “Of course the Civil War was about slavery ...

Texans are in a better position than most to see what McConnell’s perspective on the Civil War misses. That war did lead to abolition and the emancipation of 4 million people. But slavery did ...

What caused the civil war? "It's very simple, and it really does boil down to one word," Taylor said. "The cause of the Civil War was slavery." She said that when trying to understand "why" the ...

Of course, Lincoln went on to become a pivotal historical figure in the abolition of slavery. ... So yes, Democrats supported expanding slavery at the outbreak of the Civil War.