The first images from America

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With the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, the first president from the largely anti-slavery Republican Party, conventions in thirteen slave states ultimately declared secession and formed the Confederate States of America (the “South”), while the federal government (the “Union”) maintained that secession was illegal.

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