- Slavery in early America
- Slavery and the Constitution
- "King Cotton"
- Life as a slave
- Two different economies
- Words to Know
- People to Know
- Quakers Lead Opposition to Slavery
- Thomas Jefferson, the Slaveowner Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence
- Remembrances of Slavery
When America's Founding Fathers (the country's earliest leaders) established the United States in the late 1700s, they decided to build the new nation on principles of freedom and liberty for its...
Source: American Civil War: Almanac, ©2000 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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