According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark ...

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Monday, Jan. 2, 1860. "The Abolitionists must be driven ... policy and system of Slavery on grounds so often presented by our Clays, Breckinridges, Marshalls, Underwoods, Nicholases, and Robertsons.

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.

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 ...

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 ...