This book is the story of how slavery caused The American Civil War. The first permanent English colony at Jamestown, Virginia became a landed aristocracy with founding fathers, legislators and slaveholders; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. The slave statutes enacted by the Virginia House of Burgesses show how the Negro was enslaved and the justification for the enslavement was incorporated in the documents. of democracy. Slavery was the divisive issue, which led to the secession of states from the United States, The Confederate States of America, a Constitutional conflict and Civil War.

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The United States Constitution-A Covenant with the Slaveholding South

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