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- The invention of wet collodion photography processes in the....allowed the development of two new kinds of photographs--ambrotypes and tintypes.
- Slave pens, also known as slave jails, were used to ...enslaved people until they were sold, or to hold ..., and sometimes even to "board" slaves while traveling.
- In ..., the Union Army and the US Congress determined that the US would no longer return people who escaped slavery who went to Union lines, but they would be classified as "....," or captured enemy property.
- Alabama seceded from the Union on ...Soldiers from Kentucky served in both the Union and Confederate armies. The state adopted a policy of neutrality until September 1861, when a ... element gained control of the legislature. Though Kentucky never seceded from the Union, there was a sizable pro-Confederate element in the state.
- Photograph : Portrait by Riddle of Macon: This photograph is one of less than six existent wartime images showing a slave...
- The fame of the ... unit, led by Robert Gould ..., was notable, particularly for their bravery at Fort Wagner in...
- The Secession Convention delegates named ... to write up the reasons for secession. Rhett wrote "The Address to the Slave-Holding States," and his central argument was based on the right to ...
- The most infamous and successful firm (cotton trade) in the capital in Virginia was ..., whose slave pen is shown here under a later owner's name.
- A. J. Russell, a captain in the 141st New York Infantry Volunteers, was one of the few Civil War photographers who was also a ...
- The United States Colored Troops (USCT) embodied Frederick Douglass's belief that "...."
- In the North, free black leaders began demanding equal rights. For instance, in October ...demanded complete abolition and the right to vote. Additionally, in January 1865, the .... of free black leaders demanded suffrage in Louisiana.
- In 1861-1862, as the federal army occupied the ... (Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Louisiana), slaves headed for Union lines.
- According to the photographer, "What do I want, John Henry?" was a question this ... frequently asked his servant (ex-slaves most often served the Northern army as cooks and laborers).
- African Americans, both in the North and the South, called the conflict the "..."
- The 79th Regiment of the New York State Militia and was comprised primarily of ... and Scottish-Americans.
- Thomas Roche - .... (alongside the James River)Black soldiers in the North were organized in separate battalions, so the man couldn't be a soldier. He was a contraband.
- Vice President ... took the covert, and later overt, lead in the anti-tariff struggle.
- During the ...sectional crisis over creating new slave and free states, another secessionist movement began in South Carolina. Calhoun's famous March 4,... in Congress has been regarded as a major defense of the right of secession to protect the interests of a political minority.
- Some black and white teachers and missionaries from the North, collectively known as ..., went to the Sea Islands to work with the freed people.
- ...1860 speech before the Virginia legislature stands alongside Calhoun's as an eloquent statement of the right of secession.