COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped ...

That every intelligent, right-meaning man in every State where Slavery exists believes the institution to be productive of evil, and that the only reason why emancipation has not long since taken ...

Despite this improvement, participation of Americans in the slave trade continued, reaching its highest level from 1840 to 1860. Reports from the time suggest that American vessels were not ...

They were two of the 110 enslaved survivors aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to the Americas on 8 July 1860. They arrived in my hometown of Mobile, Alabama ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Tubman became known as the Moses of her people and slaves owners put a bounty on her head of $40,000. Tubman made 19 trips to the South between 1850 and 1860 leading around 300 people to freedom.

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.