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The Secession Crisis and Before
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Amendments Proposed by the
Peace Conference, February 8-27, 1861
(from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
Democratic Party Platform,
June 18, 1860
(from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
The Fugitive Slave Act of
1850
(from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School)
Slaves and the Courts,
1740-1860
(from the
Library of Congress; contains multiple related
files)
The Underground Railway:
Niagara’s Freedom Trail
The Lincoln-Douglas
Debates
Documents of the Secession
and Early War Era
(from Nineteenth Century Documents Project,
Furman University)
North American Slave
Narratives
John Brown and Harpers
Ferry
The Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Case
Uncle Tom's Cabin &
American Culture
Map of Territorial Growth,
1860
Map of the 1860
Presidential Election
Excerpts from The
Roving Editor, Or Talks with Slaves in the
Southern States (1859) by James Redpath
(NB: The site has a commercial character)
Crisis at Fort Sumter
The Pony Express Home
Station
North Georgia Before the
War
The Crittenden Compromise
(courtesy of Jim Epperson)
Causes of the Civil War
(much more information from Jim Epperson,
including resolutions, party platforms, and
contemporary speeches)
The Impending Crisis
(from "Valley of the Shadow")
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