Haiti is currently at the epicenter of an extraordinary crisis, with its government losing control and brutal gangs ...

The Compromise of 1850 The extension of slavery was again an issue when California, heavily populated by settlers during the Gold Rush of 1849, applied for entrance to the Union as a free state.

Each state where slavery was outlawed recorded 0% of slave-owning families in the 1860 census — and both the 1.4% and 7.4% statistics included these free states, thus minimizing the extent of ...

But as the 18 th Century wore into the 19 th, Northern revulsion at slavery and the brutal tactics of slave catchers produced a reaction against Free State involvement in slave rendition.