Slavery in the United States A brief history http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/slavery.html Slavery in the North, Washington, and Oney Judge http://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/history/slavery-gw-oney.htm Slavery in the North http://slavenorth.com/ Slavery at Jefferson's Moticello: Paradox of Liberty http://www.monticello.org/slavery-at-monticello/jsam-main-nav Slavery in the North Northern states permitted slavery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but outlawed it around the start of the nineteenth century. https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/slavery-freedom-and-the-struggle-for-empire-1750-1763-5/slavery-in-the-colonies-55/slavery-in-the-north-341-8627/ The Growth of Slavery in North America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr5.html Slavery and the Making of America http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html Traces of the Trade A Story from the Deep North http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/ Slavery in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States and to note who actually started the Civil War: The war began when the Confederates bombarded Union soldiers at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/ and see also (linked in): http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=60232115 and following http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=111804225 and preceding and following