Taking these facts and principles as the basis of calculation, we have the following result for each State of the Union: States. Free People. Slaves. Aggregate. Alabama..... 500,000 420,000 920,000.

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year ... Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black people were funneled into ...

The Democrat politician Stephen Douglas had the idea that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would choose for themselves whether they would become slave or free states. This meant the old ...

and other institutions and had little in common with the slaves around them. But this free elite would come to play a major role in the turbulent politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery. The North ...