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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...
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Civil War: Before the War
They then research and create posters depicting prominent abolitionists and the tactics they used to advance the cause of ending slavery. In the 1800s, before the Civil War, if you were anti ...
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Abolition of Slavery
The official aim of the war was to preserve the ... “Black Codes,” doubted that the abolition amendment gave Congress power to displace the states in civil rights matters and impose criminal ...
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Abolition & Suffrage
Still, these differences among abolitionists did little to deter the common work of those who embraced emancipation for both slaves and women. From 1848 through the Civil War, those who argued for ...