id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 15006 Potts, Eugenia Dunlap Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War .txt text/plain 13504 801 73 No pen or brush can picture life in the old Southern States in the Negro laborers were brought to Virginia and sold as slaves, fifty years Constitution of the United States for the Southern planters to hold as the division line between the free and slave states. Southern colonies were Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina In 1792 Kentucky, cut off from Virginia, entered as a slave state, and in 1796 Tennessee, given up by North Carolina, came in as a slave State. slaves, but the institution was legalized in the Southern States. South wanted her left free to choose slave labor; the North feared that In the same year Texas came in as a slave State. Not quite fifty years ago the Southern States of this Union, having Southern States had hundreds of sympathizers among the men of the North, Through the grand old States of Virginia and South ./cache/15006.txt ./txt/15006.txt