. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. n in Congress, aided by a strong contingentfrom the North she defied by the enactment in 1854, of the Kan-sas-Nebraska Act. Here was an irrepressible conflict, which wasaccentuated by the Dred Scott Decision of the U. S. SupremeCourt in 1857, delivered two days after the inauguration ofPresident Buchanan. In Kansas the conflict was bitter andpersistent, and in the end Freedom won. Both sides of thestruggle between Freedom and Slavery were engaged in a polit-ical duel in Illi
. The Negro in American history [microform] : men and women eminent in the evolution of the American of African descent. n in Congress, aided by a strong contingentfrom the North she defied by the enactment in 1854, of the Kan-sas-Nebraska Act. Here was an irrepressible conflict, which wasaccentuated by the Dred Scott Decision of the U. S. SupremeCourt in 1857, delivered two days after the inauguration ofPresident Buchanan. In Kansas the conflict was bitter andpersistent, and in the end Freedom won. Both sides of thestruggle between Freedom and Slavery were engaged in a polit-ical duel in Illinois, where Lincoln represented the idea of theNational power of the country to check the westward extensionof slavery, and Stephen Douglas championed the right to makea territory either free or slave at will. In 1859 another insur-rection, this time led by John Brown, a white man, with 22followers, at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, thrilled the had most wide-reaching and permanent results, doomingslavery to extinction, although its leader and his associates paidthe penalty of their lives on the • Inhii Bniwii (III Hi- \\ii\ ti. tiic Scatlnlcl. After ll(i\ cikIcii. B IX CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION With the Democratic party divided, 1860 witnessed two rivalpresidential tickets; as a result of which Abraham Lincoln andthe Republican party obtained a decisive victory in the electoralcollege. The triumph of the Republicans gave the South the pretextthat it was seeking. The civil war followed and resulted inthe triumph of the Union and the abolition of slavery. OnApril 16, 1862, slavery was abolished in the District of Colum-bia by the payment of $993,; and notice having been given,September 22,1862 of his intention, if those supporting the Rich-mond government did not return to the Union within one hun-dred days. President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclama-tion, January 1, 1863, declaring all slaves in the seceded Statesand Territories except in
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