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In 1831, Garrison published the first edition of The Liberator. His words, "I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD," clarified the position of the new abolitionists.
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Rebel slaves killed anywhere from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States.
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Campaigned that slavery is illegal under natural law, and sees the Constitution "a covenant with hell."
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In her Letter on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, Sarah Grimke argues Catharine Beecher’s defense of the subordinate role of women.
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The most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era, used to not only denounce slavery, but to fight for the emancipation of women and other oppressed groups.
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Advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman."
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Harriet and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from the Poplar Neck Plantation. Ben and Henry had second thoughts and returned to the plantation. The newspaper The Cambridge Democrat published a $300 reward for the return of Harriet and her two brothers. Harriet travelled 90 miles to Pennsylvania, a free state, using the Underground Railroad.
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A pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States.
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Sojorner Truth's short, simple speech was a powerful rebuke to many antifeminist arguments of the day and became, and continues to serve, as a classic expression of womens rights.
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Changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property.
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Members of the Whig Party (party created to oppose "tyranny" against Andrew Jackson) meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories.
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Mandated “popular sovereignty”–allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders.
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In early 1855, Kansas’ first election proved a violent affair, as more than 5,000 so-called Border Ruffians invaded the territory from western Missouri and forced the election of a pro-slavery legislature.
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Representative Preston Brooks slammed his metal-topped cane onto the unsuspecting Sumner's head because of his "Crime Against Kansas" speech.
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Affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, thereby negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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Contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks, and it added to the frictions leading up to the U.S. Civil War.
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The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential election, one being the role of slavery in the United States.
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Brown had hopes that the local slave population would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country; this was not the case.
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The Democratic Party split into three groups along regional lines, each vying for control of the party and each holding different ideas about how to deal with slavery in the West.
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The speech failed by one vote of being endorsed by the convention.