What is Slavery? (What is History?) Section- The Confederacy Lincoln feared that the war

Lincoln feared that the war could end in Union victory with slavery still intact

Filled with historic paintings and illustrations from the period

weaving together biography and political history

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it required qualities of leadership exhibited by few other commanders in history

What is Slavery? (What is History?) Section- The Confederacy Lincoln feared that the warby Brenda Stevenson What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved to be essential to the creation of the young nations agricultural and industrial economies and profoundly