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The Liberator was published with the motto "Our country is the world-- our countrymen are mankind."
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Believing himself chosen by God to lead his people out of slavery, Turner launches a bloody slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia.
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Through lecturing agents, petition drives, and a wide variety of printed materials, this society was founded to convince the public that the abolishment of slavery was the way to go.
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These letters were in response to mindsets such as Catherine Beecher's, who believed women should remain subordinate.
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The major theme of this speech is that slaves need to rebel against the system of slavery.
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Douglass developed The North Star into the most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era.
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This was th first ever USA women's convention with almost 200 women in attendance.
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Harriet married a free slave who refused to run away with her so she followed the north star all the way to Philadelphia with her two brothers.
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As a part of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, this new law forcibly compelled citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
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This speech was delievered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio.
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Stowe's book changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property.
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Anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party which resulted in the Republican Party.
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This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
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It was a border debate between free-staters and pro-slavery citizens in Kansas.
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Sumner, a member of the House of Representatives, entered the Senate chamber and was savagely beat into unconsciousness.
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In the Dred Scott case, the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territorieswas affirmed through the ruking on the case.
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Northern Democrats, however, opposed the Lecompton Constitution after it was voted down by the majority of Kansas settlers.
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a series of formal political debates between the challenger, Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' two United States Senate seats.
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Brown took hostages into an arsenal in Harpers Ferry in hopes that slaves would join his rebellion.
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The presidential election between Lincoln and his toughest competitor, John C. Breckinridge, was the immediate cause to starting the American Civil War.
