Slavery Resolution

Resolutions defending slavery passed by the first meeting of the secession convention on March 20, 1861, shortly before the Civil War broke out.

"Resolutions passed by the convention of the people of Arkansas on the twentieth day of March 1861" document in three columns with border art

Courtesy of Library of Congress Printed Ephemera Collection

Media

Time Period

Civil War through Reconstruction (1861 - 1874)

Category

Civil Rights and Social Change / Civil War to Gilded Age / Race

Type

Thing

Race & Ethnicity

African American

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