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Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave turned abolitionist. After Douglas was known for his public speeches for the Masachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. He also published a newspaper called the North Star where he talked about other social justice issues. he was also a large advocate for womens rights too.
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The Anti-Slavery Society was a main part of the Abolition Movement. The group had around 200,000 people in it and 2,000 auxiliary societies. When the group met they would come up with anti-slavery petitions and send them to congress. They also made propaganda to send the anti-slavery message to the northern people. The leader, William Garrison thought of the U.S. Constitution promoted slavery and they didn't agree with that so they then created the liberty party.
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By further strengthening the older Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, the act of 1850 forced citizens to join sides on the slavery issue that bugged the entire country. The act led to many free blacks being enslaved illegally. tensions between the North and South grew and everntually led to a casue of the Civil War.
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The underground railroad wsa a channel of tunnels that was a major route for slaves to escape from their owners. The railroad was led by escaped slaves such as Harriett Tubman and John Brown. The Underground Railroad led to the civil war because it went against what the slave owners wanted and it angered them. These events were a direct cause of the civil war.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act where the government wanted Kansas to be a slave state even the the people of Kansas opposed slavery. The Dred Scott case also feuled this act as he was still pronounced a slave after his trial. The North and South did not trust one another. The South felt like they were being victimized and they thought that the government was in the hands of the Republicans which would lead to indirect action against slavery. No amount of reassurance helped the North.
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Bleeding Kansas was a battle fought between proslavery and antislavery supporters for control of the new territory, Kansas. If Kansas was free of slavery that would mean a less black population in Kansas. Some people think of this battle as the start of the Civil War because it is one of the first battles where pro and antislavery meet and fight one another.
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The ruling of this case filled abolitionists with anger. Later after the Supreme Court ruled that the congress exceeded their ability because they had no power to abolish slavery in the territories west of Missouri. Though the supreme court made this ruling, the abolitionists were still outraged. They saw the ruling as a way for the Supreme Court to put a hold on slavery debates for a while. The division of the North and South grew and grew until the issue of slavery finally the two sides began.
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In these debates Lincoln strongly insisted that Douglas was encouraging a wrong in the country, that being slavery. Douglas was worried that with Lincoln bring the issue up that it would lead to a civil war, which it did.
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John Brown was unlike most abolitionists, he was not all for peaceful protesting. He wanted to fight, and he did. He organized a group of freed slaves to attack slaveholders and the U.S. military armory at Harpers Ferry. Brown hoped that the attack would lead to a slave uprising in America. The raid failed and many thnk that put an end to any relolutions between the North and South. Many historians call this event a dress rehersal for the Civil War.
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This book was one of the most influential books ever published. The book made Northern people see how bad slavery really was and made them think worse about it, and contrary made the southerners want to uphold slavery that much more since everyone else hated it. Since it caused so many differnet opinions on slavery it was seen to lay the groundwork of the Civil War.
