Every now and then someone highlights the overlap between today’s Republican states and the slave states of the former Confederacy. As clichéd as the point may be, it remains indispensable ...

Even as individual states chose different paths on slavery, the question of how to manage relations between slave and free states, and what to do about people who traveled across state lines ...

Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

Almost surrounded as she is by Free States, and permeated by the wind ... now hardly come into the same social category with the Slave States at all; for in the former of these States the ...

Here is an edited version of our conversation. In learning about the Civil War, we typically learn there were “slave states” and “free states.” In what ways does Illinois complicate those ...

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Maryland and Kentucky, whom no threats have been able to force, no intrigue to juggle from their loyalty, are both Slave States. Do State lines and State rights mark out these lines? Where then ...

Claim: Maps show similarity between 2004 U.S. presidential election results and pattern of free vs. slave states in pre-Civil War America. Origins: This is another example for which it is ...

Alabama, nay. The Civil War states are nearly reversed now. The free states are in the South ... the slave states in the North? Slave states? Yes, more and more the Yankees are slaves to ...

Here is an edited version of our conversation. In learning about the Civil War, we typically learn there were “slave states” and “free states.” In what ways does Illinois complicate those ...

Voters in three states approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fourth state ...