1 Jennifer Oast, Institutional Slavery: Slaveholding Churches, Schools, Colleges, and Businesses in Virginia, 1680 – 1860 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 159. 2 Royal Charter Collection, ...

The first slaves – 20 Africans - arrived on a Dutch ship around1619 to the Virginia colony at Jamestown ... reaching its highest level from 1840 to 1860. Reports from the time suggest that ...

TROY, Saturday, April 28, 1860. Troy has had an excitement, a sensation that stirred it from its ordinary tranquillity -- the arrest of a fugitive slave ... be taken back to Virginia.

I mean, if you looked objectively at the lineup in 1860, it was fairly clear he ... not receive a single popular vote in any slave state except Virginia, who is committed to blocking the expansion ...