Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and Secession

by Beverley B. Munford

her attitude towards custom of buying and selling slaves, [138]-[152];

constitutional requirements in, regarding voting and apportionment of representation, [144], [145];

colonists from, to Liberia, [152];

small number of slaveholders among her soldiers, [153]-[155];

causes militating against free discussion of slavery in, [172]-[180];

her electoral vote in 1860, cast for Union candidates, [179];

her secession not impelled by fear of adverse slavery legislation, [191];

effect of "personal liberty laws" and "Underground Railroad" upon people of, [200], [201];

requisition of Governor of, upon Governor of New York for fugitive from justice denied, [207];

her people appreciated the danger to slavery resulting from secession, [222]-[224];