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Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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At the same time the strength of slavery increased in the South, with the continuing demand for cheap labor by the tobacco growers and cotton farmers of the Southern states. By 1850, ... "...States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following,
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Sources: Historical Statistics of the United States (1970), Franklin (1988). ... Society at large shared in maintaining the machinery of slavery. In place of a standing police force, Southern states passed legislation to establish and regulate county-wide citizen patrols. Essentially, Southern citizens took upon...
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Slavery and the Framing of the U.S. ... In 1804 a provision was inserted into the act organizing the Territory of Orleans, that no slaves should be carried thither, except from some part of the United States, by citizens removing into the Territory as actual settlers, this permission not to extend to negroes introduced into...
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