The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society founded in 1854 by American George W. L. Bickley, the objective of which was to create a new country known as the Golden Circle (Spanish: Círculo Dorado), where slavery would be legal.

Aug 10, 2019 · In the mid 19th century United States, a group of Southern men known as the Knights of the Golden Circle subscribed to a similar philosophy. This secret society hatched a plot to protect and extend slavery, arguably the most contentious issue in …

Knights of the Golden Circle, a semi-military secret society that was active in the Midwestern states during the American Civil War. In 1859 George Bickley, a freebooter and adventurer, launched a fraternal order which proposed the establishment …

Oct 25, 2023 · The Knights of the Golden Circle (K.G.C.), a secretive organization created in 1854, proposed to establish a slaveholding empire encompassing the southern United States, the West Indies, Mexico, and parts of Central America.

May 7, 2011 · The Knights of the Golden Circle became the first and most powerful ally of the newly-created Confederate States of America. Before the Civil War officially started on April 12, 1861, when shots were fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and before Texas had held its election on the secession referendum on February 23, 1861, Texas volunteer ...

Nov 17, 2020 · The Knights of the Golden Circle was a pro-slavery secret society founded in the decade before the American Civil War. During this time, the pro-slavery South and the anti-slavery North wanted to expand their borders and create new states aligned with their respective causes.

Apr 27, 2022 · The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) were an American Secret Society that was founded on July 4, 1854 by George W. L. Bickley in Lexington, Kentucky. Their mission was to create a slave empire in a region known as "The Golden Circle."

May 5, 2023 · Claims of tens of thousands of members in Midwestern states—notably Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio—sitrred fears of conspiracies against the Republican government. The die for the seal of the Knights of the Golden Circle came into the hands of the U.S. Army when Bickley was arrested in Tennessee in July 1863.

Once the fighting began, the Knights helped build the emerging Confederate Army and assisted with the pro-Confederate Copperhead movement in northern states. With the war all but lost, various Knights supported one of their members, John Wilkes Booth, in his plot to assassinate President Lincoln.

Dec 1, 2021 · In 1854 a small group of pro-slavery sympathizers formed the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society whose goal it was to create a vast new empire for slavery—one that traced a “golden circle” from the deep South through Mexico, Central America, parts of South America, and the Caribbean.