That every intelligent, right-meaning man in every State where Slavery exists believes the institution to be productive of evil, and that the only reason why emancipation has not long since taken ...

Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in the slave trade continued, reaching its highest level from 1840 to 1860. Reports from the time suggest that American vessels were not ...

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 ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.