The Peculiar Institution Men and Women While in slavery and even after gaining freedom, some slaves wrote down their recollection of that period during their lives. These recollections are called slave narratives- where the institution of slavery and its effects on the enslaved are naturally d...

Between 1800-1850 Americans felt it was time to expand westward, industrialize, and gain nationalism to better the common man and woman and create a more social, powerful and wealthy country. Soon both common and wealthy men became national leaders and led the country to new worlds and places only t...

Slavery was a common practice in the southern states in the early 1800's. Therefore what made the Underground Railroad so successful? Supposedly the term Underground Railroad originated when an enslaved runaway, Tice Davids, fled from Kentucky. Determined to retrieve his property, his owner ch...