Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

¹Idem abolition of slavery Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln action admitted to probate adopted African slave trade amendment American Colonization Society Amherst County ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENTS attitude authorities Bancroft Book cause cipation citizens Civil Clerk's Office coercion Congress constitution Cotton County Court Records dated declared delegates disunion efforts emancipation enactment evil executors existence Extract Federal Government FOREIGN SLAVE TRADE Fort Sumter free negroes freedmen freedom fugitive slaves George Governor Henry History of United Idem inaugural institution of slavery insurrection James Jefferson John John Tyler land Legislature Liberia liberty Madison manumitted March ment National North Northern Ohio peace political population position President Lincoln pro-slavery proclamation Randolph resolutions respect says seceded secession slaveholders slavery in Virginia South Carolina speaking SPECIMENS OF DEEDS speech statute Sumter territory Thomas Jefferson Randolph tion Tyler Union VIEWS Virginia Convention Virginia's secession vote Washington Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison writing wrote