The Texas slave insurrection panic of 1860, also known as the Texas Troubles, was a moral panic or mass hysteria and a resulting massacre in North and...

South and foment slave insurrections. (The noted secessionist William Lowndes Yancey, speaking at New York's Cooper Institute in October 1860, asserted that...

ISBN 978-0-8071-3283-8 (re: Insurrection Scare in East Texas) "Smith County and Its Neighgors During the Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860," by Donald Eugene Reynolds...

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Frederick Douglass, an American slave (2000), online. Lyon Rathbun, "The debate over annexing Texas and the emergence of Manifest Destiny." Rhetoric & Public...

Territory. When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on a platform of halting the expansion of slavery, slave states seceded to form the Confederacy....

Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships...

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into Texas. By 1836, there were approximately 5,000 slaves in Texas. Exportation in the slave-owning areas of the state surpassed that of the non-slave-owning...

Confederate states (excluding Texas and Florida). These counties contained 63% of the 1860 white population and 64% of the slaves. By the time the fighting...

the civil war of the Golden Horde Time of Troubles, a period of Russian history 1598–1613 Texas Troubles, a slave insurrection panic in 1860 Corsican conflict...

Mexican–American War in 1846. Following victory by the United States, Texas remained a slave state until the American Civil War, when it declared its secession...

 207. Marten, James (2009). "Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South by Donald E. Reynolds". Southwestern...

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treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men, and inciting a slave insurrection. He was found guilty of all charges and was hanged on...

by the costly Second Seminole War and his refusal to admit Texas to the Union as a slave state. In 1840, Van Buren lost his re-election bid to William...

(excluding Texas and Florida), there was Union military action in 56% of them, containing 63% of the whites and 64% of the slaves in 1860; however, by...

motivation in annexing Texas was to outmaneuver suspected efforts by Great Britain to promote an emancipation of slaves in Texas that would weaken the...

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"Symphonie fantastique", an early highlist of Romanticism August 22: Nat Turner and a band of slaves lead an insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia. The...

for Lee's celebrated horse, Traveller. But 'slavery', 'slave emancipation' and 'slave insurrection' together received five. Freeman observed, without offering...

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An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the Civil War,...

fewer slaves. By 1860, 91.7% of the blacks in Delaware and 49.7% of those in Maryland were free. Such early free families often formed the core of artisans...

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prohibit the circulation through the South of "incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection". The Jackson administration successfully...

for president in 1852, and he lost badly. With Texas and Florida having been admitted to the union as slave states in 1845, California was entered as a free...

the 1860 U.S. census, fewer than 385,000 individuals (i.e. 1.4% of whites in the country, or 4.8% of southern whites) owned one or more slaves. 95% of blacks...

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leaders of the insurrection had proposed rejoining the Union on any terms. Meanwhile, Lincoln and the Republican leadership agreed that the dismantling of the...