Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

šIdem abolition of slavery Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln action admitted to probate adopted African African slave trade amendment American Colonization Society Amherst County ANTI-SLAVERY SENTIMENTS Assembly attitude Bancroft Book cause cipation citizens Civil Clerk's Office condition Confederacy Congress Cotton County Court Records dated debate declared delegates disunion election emancipation enacted evil executors existence Extract Federal Government Fort Sumter free negroes freedom Fugitive Slave Law George Governor Henry History of United Idem institution of slavery James Jefferson John land Legislature Liberia liberty Madison manumitted March Mercer National North Northern Ohio peace political population position President Lincoln pro-slavery proclamation provision race Randolph Republican Party resolutions respect Rhodes Robert says seceded secession Seward slaveholders slavery in Virginia South Carolina Southern speaking SPECIMENS OF DEEDS speech statute Sumter territories Thomas Jefferson Randolph tion Union VIEWS Virginia Convention Virginia's secession vote Washington Wendell Phillips William Lloyd Garrison writes wrote