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"The Liberator" was an abolitionist's newspaper. It was created by Lloyd Garrison who called for the emancipation of all slaves.
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For a few days Nat Turner was able to lead a slave revolt in Va that was on the largest scale America had ever seen. There were around 60 fatalities and Nat Turner was caught and killed 2 months afer the revolt.
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A society against slavery by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. The society often had meetings where former/escaped slaves would speak. There was a newspaper run by the society.
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Grimke's publishes "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes", a series of letters published in a newspaper. Her ideas were considered radical at the time.
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Highland Garnet gave a speech calling on slaves to rebel against their masters. He even said God could not command them to suffer any longer.
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Frederick Douglas publishes the first copy of "North Star", his anti-slavery newspaper that was an allusion to "follow the North Star" to freedom
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A convention was held over two days to discuss women's rights. It set of a chain reaction of recognition of the women's rights movement.
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Harriet Tubman escpaed slavery, but came back many times to lead others to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
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The act said that any escaped slave was to be imediately returned to their master, even if they had escaped to the north. Everyone had to comply to the law including Northerners and abolitionist.
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Sojourner was a human rights activist that was born into slavery and constantly mistreated. She made this speech in advocation for both slaves/blacks and women.
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was an anti-slavery novel that gave a glimpse at the real horrors of slavery. It had a hand in pushing the US into the Civil War.
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The Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activist and ex-Whigs, who had opposed Jackson. It opposed the Democractic Party and still exsits today.
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The act gave permisson to the people of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide themselves if they would legalize or illegalize slavery in their borders. It repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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Arguments over the decision for Kansas to enter the Union as a Free or Slave state turned violent.
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Three days after Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery senator, gave an address of the state of Kansas being either a slave or free state, a man from the House of Representatives came into the Senate chamber and beat him to unconsciousness.
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US Supreme Court decides no black man/woman, whether they were a slave or free man, was considered a citizen and therefore could not sue in federal court. Instead of discouraging blacks, there was great backlash against the decision and had the opposite affect the Supreme Justice had wanted.
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The Lecompton Constitution was a document that supported the idea of Kansas becomnig a slave state, but it was rejected by Congress. The Wyandotte Constitution was put in place instead.
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The two canidates for the US Senate from Illinois, Lincoln and Douglas, had a series of debates that mainly revolved around slavery. Linclon lost to Doglas in the election.
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The abolitionist John Brown tried to create a slave revolt against a part of the US arsenal at Harper's Ferry. His revolt failed and was defeated by the US Marines led by Robert E. Lee.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as the first Republican president. His electoral votes came solely from northeren states.
