Slavery, Civil Rights, and the Constitution during the 19th Century
Title: Slavery, Civil Rights, and the Constitution during the 19th Century
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1833 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Slavery, Civil Rights, and the Constitution during the 19th Century
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1833 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
In 1619, a Dutch ship sailed into Jamestown, Virginia and sold twenty African slaves to the Virginia colonists, thus slavery and involuntary servitude begun. Throughout the early 1800s the South and the North drifted progressively further apart over the issue of allowing the institution of human slavery to continue in the United States. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president and refused to let the southern states "go in peace and made a movement to abolish slavery,
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