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Early 1800s: The slave trade is thriving.
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The first issue of William Lloyd Garrison’s anti-slavery newspaper, the Liberator, is published.
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1832: South Carolina threatens to secede from the Union.
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Oberlin College was founded.
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Pro-slavery supporters kill abolitionist printer, Elijah P. Lovejoy, while trying to protect his shop from its third destruction.
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Congress passed a Gag-rule. This banned discussing, reading, printing, or referencing any petition relating slavery.
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Harriet Tubman begins her work to help free slaves through the Underground Railroad.
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The Emancipation Proclamation is issued, freeing all slaves living in the Confederacy.
