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North Carolina Historical Review 90.1 (2013): 1–25. online; Taylor, Rosser Howard. "Slave Conspiracies in North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 5.1 (1928): 20–34. online; Vollmers, Gloria. "Industrial slavery in the United States: the North Carolina turpentine industry 1849–61." Accounting, Business & Financial History 13.3 ...
Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions including the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the 1808 Act Prohibiting ...
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
At the start of the American Civil War in 1861, there were 34 states in the United States, 15 of which were slave states, all of which had slave codes. The 19 free states did not have slave codes, although they still had laws regarding slavery and enslaved people, covering such issues as how to handle slaves from slave states, whether they were ...
“The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots” offers a harsh indictment of slavery and American democracy. An NC slave’s forgotten story reappears after a century, speaking ...
Pages in category "Slavery in the United States by state or territory" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The Missouri Compromise, 1821: applied to what are now Iowa, western and southern Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, the part of Kansas then belonging to the US, the northern part of Oklahoma, and the parts of Montana and Wyoming lying east of the Continental Divide; explicitly repealed in 1850, but efforts to introduce slavery were effectively foiled until the abolition of slavery in the ...