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Nat Turner attacks farm owners with slaves. Over 100 slaves were killed. Nat Turner lived.
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William Lloyd Garrison starts the American Anti-Slavery Society. I don't know what it did, or if it was sccesful.
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Fredrick Douglass (an escaped slave) publishes his autobiography. It was about slavery and what it was like.
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Isebella Van Wagner travels and gives speeches against slavery. Later she changes her name to Sojourner Truth which meens ''traveler''.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe is published. It further showed what slavery was about.
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By 1860 500,000 African Americans were free. Many of them escaped to Canada and Mexico, Some bought there freedom.
