Title: 1861, the cause
Description: Beginning with a dramatci indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northen abolitionists who opposed it.  Here are the burning questions of Union and States' Rights.  John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, the firing on Fort Sumter and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides.
Subjects: Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861, History, Causes, Campaigns
Places: United States
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865