And he said men of Ohio who let themselves be drafted into the Union army were no better than slaves themselves.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

When they heard that the slaves would be freed, they gave their support immediately to President Lincoln and the North.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

In time,however, there was another reason to fight: to free the black people held as slaves in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

He believed slaves could be made into good soldiers if they believed they had an interest in Confederate victory.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

That measure freed the slaves in the rebel states of the South, though Lincoln's words fell on deaf ears.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

Second,he could not be guilty of plotting a slave rebellion, because he had never incited slaves against their owners.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

He acted in the belief that slaves throughout the south would rise up against their owners and join him.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The old man thought he and his men could hold Harpers Ferry until slaves in the area rebelled and joined them.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He admitted that the old Missouri compromise of eighteen twenty had limited the right to take slaves into the territories.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Davis was sure that no good would result from it, not even from stronger laws on the return of escaped slaves.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

Anti-war activists told them that the war was not being fought to save the Union, but to free Negro slaves.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

He said the amendment should recognize the right to own slaves as property in states where slavery was permitted.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

That was not a real railroad. It was an organization of people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North.

VOA: special.2009.04.16