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the Virginia Convention (1861), was convened in 1861, at the beginning of American Civil War (1861-65). The convention was staged to consider the splitting of Virginia from the US. Around 151 delegates were elected on the request of General...
usade for emancipation. Southerners regarded abolitionist drive as a direct threat to their way of life and took draconian measures to suppress their message in the South(Altman ,55). Abolitionism was, in part, an outgrowth of religious rev...
John Brown gave at his trial. Many historians consider him "narrowly ignorant" and "God's angry man". He was not "narrowly ignorant," having traveled widely in the United States, England, and Europe and talked with many American intellectua...
was a fool’ ( Dryden ) is referable to the fact either that it may, as a sentiment, be unreasonably immoderate, or that, as Hume argued, it involves pride in what relates to oneself, which, while natural, cannot be justified to those with o...
known as an abolitionist and is remembered for his activism measures. Almost all analysts and historians who had worked with Brown emphasized on the militant actions he had taken against slavery in the United States. Besides that, Brown wa...
slaves were usually taken from the unprotected peripheries of society. Criminals and socially excluded people were forced into slavery. Prisoners of war were commonly taken as slaves and indeed wars were often motivated by the quest for sla...
maintained slavery although few of them possessed slaves as they realized that it was a needed evil and that it was an imperative Southern institute. There were several factors together with financial and political issues involving North z...