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 ...

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 ...