What President Abraham Lincoln called “this mighty scourge of war” finally ended “the bonds-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil.

supply; the new workers would be enslaved and pro-hibited from owning arms. Subsequently, the African population spiked upward, and slavery spread across the South. African Americans would remain degraded as unpaid laborers and dehumanized as property until the Civil War. What President Abraham Lincoln called “this mighty scourge of war” finally ended “the bonds-man’s two […]