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Title: The Institution of Slavery Post by: sholland90 on Nov 26, 2011 Need help with my history essays...
In 1860, the institution of slavery was firmly entrenched in the United States; by 1865, it was dead. How did this happen? How did Union policy toward slavery and enslaved people change over the course of the war? Why did it change? Title: Re: The Institution of Slavery Post by: mohammedfsmith on Nov 26, 2011 Content hidden
Title: Re: The Institution of Slavery Post by: lennythespider on Nov 26, 2011 The civil war, from the northern perspective was about freeing the slaves from early on. The north won, so the slaves were freed. The election of Lincoln, who campaigned on an antislavery platform, is what made the south leave the union. Slavery legally ended in 1865 but the attitudes behind it persisted for a century after that in the former slave states and were manifested in the 'jim crow' laws that were enacted in the southern states to strip blacks of the rights of citizenship, which they didn't get back until the 1960s.
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