The proslavery forces won the election. On March 30, 1855, another election was held to choose members of the territorial legislature. The Missourians, or "Border Ruffians," as they were called ...

The fifth victim floated nearby as John Brown and his men washed blood from their swords in Pottawatomie Creek. Brown said that the killings had been committed in accordance to "God’s will," and ...

Furthermore, understood in context, the three-fifths apportionment rule was not necessarily proslavery in principle, for even though slaves were property under the laws of the Southern states ...

But his fame came primarily from his defense of slavery. This defense, according to Eugene Genovese, "dramatically altered the terms of the proslavery argument, moving it from the defense of a ...

Antislavery convictions were already being voiced by radicals during the English Civil War in the 1640s and 1650s — not ...

The Missouri proslavery guerrilla fighters who fought the abolitionists and free soil settlers of Osawatomie and Miami County were not a group of thugs who lacked all semblance of civilized ...

Over the years, but especially during the antebellum decades, Quakers articulated controversial racial policies that few in Loudoun's largely proslavery white community found acceptable.

New Kent County, Virginia, Decision" which appeared in The Oral History Review. Her article, “Thomas Dew and the Rise of Proslavery Ideology at William & Mary” appears in the Forum on Slavery and ...

Although protection of the slave trade was a major concession demanded by proslavery delegates, the final clause was not a permanent element of the constitutional structure, but a temporary ...

They see no reason to fear that the Constitution, which has shown such pliant tenacity under the warps and twistings of a forty-years' proslavery pressure, should be in danger of breaking ...

But he has one sticking point: The state’s eye-catching flag has a disturbing proslavery, pro-Confederate history. Patterson doesn’t want to change the flag, which is particularly beloved by ...

In his introduction Eric J. Sundquist attempts to show that Uncle Tom's Cabin boldly takes issue with both proslavery arguments and prevailing prejudices among abolitionists, employing the forms of ...