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The American Civil War, which was catalyzed by the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860.
The best-supported historical reading is that "Cotton-Eyed Joe" emerged in the American South before the Civil War and carries connections to slavery-era culture and minstrel caricature—facts that hav...
began in the mid-1850s as a northern coalition formed to stop the expansion of slavery into western territories after Congress passed the , which reopened the slavery question in the territories . Ant...
The Confederate battle flag originated as a military emblem of the Confederate armies during the Civil War, a rebellion whose constitution explicitly protected slavery, and over time that banner was r...