Salomon Northup was an African American abolitionist who lived throughout the first half of the 19th century. He was a born as a free man. He is known for being the author of the book "Twelve Years as a Slave", which tells the history of his life during the years he was kidnapped and turned into a slave.
One of the biblical texts which Christians at the time used to justify slavery was Genesis IX, 18-27 which describes the exile of Ham during the events of "Noah's Arc". The belief is that Ham was then turned black and all of his descendants were made Africans.
Answer: Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The country was split along the 38th parallel, with Soviet forces occupying the northern zone and Americans stationed in the south.
The Confederates were the ones who wanted to keep slavery, but the north did not want that, so the south tried to back off of the united states to become its on country, naturally the north did not want that so they went to war