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A History of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the American Civil War (1893) Cleveland, Dr. Mather. New Hampshire and the Civil War (Regiments in the 9th Army Corps 1861-1865) (1953), especially strong on medicine and casualties. Heald, Bruce D. New Hampshire in the Civil War (Arcadia Publishing, 2001); heavily illustrated. online.
The legal status of slavery in New Hampshire has been described as "ambiguous," [16] and abolition legislation was minimal or non-existent. [17] New Hampshire never passed a state law abolishing slavery. [18] That said, New Hampshire was a free state with no slavery to speak of from the American Revolution forward. [10] New Jersey
There were, nonetheless, some slaves in most free states up to the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as implemented by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, provided that a slave did not become free by entering a free state and must be returned to their owner. Enforcement of these ...
A mature frontier: the New Hampshire economy 1790–1850 Historical New Hampshire 24#1 (1969) 3–19. Squires, J. Duane. The Granite State of the United States: A History of New Hampshire from 1623 to the Present (1956) vol 1; Stackpole, Everett S. History of New Hampshire (4 vol 1916–1922) vol 4 online covers Civil War and late 19th century
“We know the Civil War was about slavery, but it was also more than that. It was about the freedoms of every individual. It was about the role of government for 80 years.”
This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of events and issues that historians recognize as origins and causes of the American Civil War. These events are roughly divided into two periods: the first encompasses the gradual build-up over many decades of the numerous social, economic, and ...
Pennsylvania's last slaves were freed in 1847, Connecticut's in 1848, and while neither New Hampshire nor New Jersey had any slaves in the 1850 Census, and New Jersey only one and New Hampshire none in the 1860 Census, slavery was never prohibited in either state until ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865 [101] (and New Jersey was one of ...
Nikki Haley’s unwillingness, at first, to say that slavery was the cause of the Civil War during an event in New Hampshire town hall this week is proving to be the gaffe she can’t escape in ...