He also proposed that Congress declare that it had no power to interfere with the slave trade between states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He wrote that the North was too aggressive toward the South and should stop interfering in the slave states.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

They said a slave-owner had as much right to his property as the owner of any other kind of property.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Lincoln also needed the support of the four slave states that had not left the Union: Delaware,Kentucky,Maryland and Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Whig Party members and Abolitionists in the North believed that slave-owners and southerners in Polk's administration had planned the war.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

He described how the story of his family began long ago in Africa when slave traders captured one of his ancestors.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Supporters of slavery wanted to organize a constitutional convention that could put Kansas into the Union as a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

And they discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The process was repeated every day and night until the escaped slave was safe in New England or even Canada.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The legislature would have the power to keep the territory open to slavery and,in time,help it become a slave state.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

They wanted new states to be free from slavery, so they would not have to compete with slave labor.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

VOA: special.2009.11.06