This iCue Mini-Documentary describes South Carolina's founding by aristocratic settlers from England who establish the city of Charleston as a major center for the African slave trade as well as the trade of Native American slaves. Those who shunned slavery moved north to establish North Carolina.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the social situation in the South prior to the Civil War, in which white society was divided between the wealthy class known as the Planter Aristocracy, and the poor yeoman farmers of the backcountry.

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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the establishment of the Georgia colony by philanthropist James Oglethorpe as a refuge for criminals from England's debtor prisons. At first he banned slavery for fear of an African insurrection, but eventually relaxed his rules to attract more immigrants.

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As runaway slaves crossed into the North, they demanded their freedom from the Union government. But the Lincoln administration wasn't prepared to deal with them, says Columbia University Professor Eric Foner.

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Professor Eric Foner of Columbia University explains the origin of "forty acres and a mule."

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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces the Compromise of 1877, the hotly disputed presidential run-off between Rutherford Hayes and Samuel Tilden.

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A cartoon from Harper's Weekly that criticizes African American politicians is rare. Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains.

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