Our flag, its history and changes from 1607 to 1910 (1910)
Champion, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), b. 1832 · New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co. · leaf 48
d thirty-three stars, representing the thirty-threestates then in the Union. Slavery had early existed in all the Colonies, butin all the Northern States the slaves had been freed, by Act of Legisla-ture—Connecticut in 1784. A moral sentiment against slavery was general in the North, while the… … —25— i860, to secede, and called on all the slave states to join her and form anew nation under the name of The Confederate States of America. Inthe next two months, six states followed her example, though in none ofthe six was the vote unanimous in conventions called for the purpose ofdeciding.…
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