Slavery in the South

By Kfogal
  • Underground Railroad

    Underground Railroad

    A system of people trying to help slaves escape and move North.
  • The Liberator

    The Liberator

    William Lloyd Garrison founds The Liberator to speak for women and slaves.
  • Period: to

    Pre-Civil War Slavery

    Slavery in the South, leading up to the Civil War.
  • Turner's Rebellion

    Turner's Rebellion

    Nat Turner, a slave and a pastor, led a rebellion and killed 57 whites.
  • Fredrick Douglass founds The North Star

    Fredrick Douglass founds The North Star

    The free slave starts an abolitionist newspaper.
  • Harriet Tubman escapes

    Harriet Tubman escapes

    Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and came back 15 times to save more slaves.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    The new territories get to choose if they are slave states or not, California is free, Texas is slave, and the Fugitive Slave Act is tightened.
  • Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Stowe writes Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe writes a story highlighting the cruelty of slavery. Caused a lot of upset in the North.
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott tried to sue for freedom. The Supreme Court said that blacks weren't citizens and shouldn't be able to sue in the first place.
  • John Brown Leads Attacks

    John Brown Leads Attacks

    John Brown was an extreme abolitionist who led other abolitionists and slaves. They killed slave owning families.
  • Lincoln is elected

    Lincoln is elected

    And Abolitionist northerner gets elected as president. This made the south angery.