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Every state above Maryland agrees to abolish slavery.
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It is illegal to purchase or trade for slaves from Africa.
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The American Colonization Society tried to take free blacks and slaves over to Liberia.
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Denmark Vessey was a slave who had a planned rebellion, but another person snitched on them, so his plan was foiled.
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The Liberator was a newspaper exclaiming Garrison's distaste for slavery.
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Nat Turner was a slave who led a rebellion throughout August of 1831.
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The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed to take more steps to abolish slavery in the Union.
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The Gag-Rule prevented Congress from raising consideration to a certain issue like slavery.
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The Philadelphia Meeting Hall was used frequently for abolition meetings, so anit-abolitionists decided to burn the meeting place down.
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Frederick Douglass went on to become a very influential orator after he escaped slavery.
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The world anti-slavery convention was held to gather a large group of abolitionists so they could try to find a solution.
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On this day, Congress read over Dix's proposal to fund mental hospitals so that the mentally ill don't have to suffer in the prisons.
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This said that any property of the woman through a marriage was theirs. Not the husbands'.
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The women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls was to gather a large group of people that were for Women's rights.
