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William Lloyd Garrison, active abolitionist, publicates The Liberator to introduce a passionate backlash against the institution of slavery. This publication causes him to affect people's views worldwide.
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Slave, Nat Turner, leads a slave rebellion in Southhampton Virginia. Turner, and his followers killed white men, women, and children, however the rebellion failed and Turner and his gang were executed. This marked the fear in southern America of a slave uprising.
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Founded by William Lloyd Garrison, the Society campaigns that Slavery is an illegal act under natural law.
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This is the first document that links slavery to the unequal treatment of women, and especially touched on the parallels of slavery and sexism.
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Garnet's Addressto the Slaves was to call for an open rebellion and have slavery abolished, however this scared the people of Americs and therefore Garnet's appeal failed.
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The North Star was the most influential black antislavery document that was published in the antebellum era.
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Is he first women's rights convention in the United States, and marks the beginning of the Women's Sufferage Movement.
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Tubman became a very important abolitionist figure after she escaped slavery, by going back and continuing to set free as many as
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The act enforces that if any person were to aid an escaped slave they would be punished, and the slave returned to their master.
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A symbol of classic feminism, and defeated arguments for antifeminism in society at that point in time.
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literature that influenced the American peoples in that of forcing them to empathize with slaves, and the effect that enslavement would have on families.
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A party created by Free Soliders, Whigs, and the northern Democrats out of hostility for slavery.
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Divided the land west of Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska. Popular sovereignty was determined meaning that the settlers of the new territories to decide if slavery would be legal there.
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Ruffians looted a town, Lawrence, and in response, John Brown organized several days later, the murder, of five proslavery settlers. Four months of bloodshed and violence continued,
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A member of the House of Representatives beat an antislavery activist senator into unconsciousness.
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The case decided that African slaves were not permitted to become American citizens, however it brought forth the attention to the institution of slavery.
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A series of debates which eventually lead to Lincoln obtaining presidency.
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This act guaranteed the protection of slavery in the region, however it was rejected by congress.
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John Brown and a group of other abolitionists raided Harper's Ferry in hopes of having some of the slave population join them to fight, however, when this did not happen, Brown was captured, and sentenced to death.
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Rupublican Lincoln and Democrat Breckinridge run for president; Lincoln wins.
