George F. Badger was a North Carolina slaveholder who served as US secretary of the Navy.
ESSAYS: Harrold
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Category: Proslavery Politician
Joseph E. Brown was the governor of Georgia who argued that slaveholders should support secession ecause slave property was no longer secure.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Andrew Butler was a proslavery US senator from South Carolina.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Stephen Hale was Alabama’s secession commissioner who unsuccessfully tried to persuade Kentucky to join the Confederacy.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Thomas Pratt was a US senator from Maryland who supported the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.
ESSAYS: Oakes
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Alexander Stephens (1812-1883) was a slaveholder who served as a congressman and US Senator from Georgia, and later as vice president of the Confederacy.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Roger B. Taney (1777-1864) was the chief justice of the US Supreme Court and author of the Dred Scott ruling in 1857, which argued that African Americans could not be US citizens and that slavery was a nationally protected institution.
ROLES: Proslavery Politician
Robert Toombs (1810-1885) was a slaveholder who served as a US Senator from Georgia and later as secretary of state for the Confederacy.
ESSAYS: Sinha
ROLES: Proslavery Politician