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Medford, Massachusetts
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(estimate year) to live with sister a year after death of mother. gets to know the Abenaki people
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her first novel
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her most successful work
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marks conversion to abolitionism and dedication of her life to its cause
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in Boston, Ellis Loring and David Child help draft founding documents
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LMC joins by invitation
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notable increase in violence against abolitionists, including Garrison's capture in Boston at a speaking event
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to learn about producing beet sugar
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in Philly, in purpose-built hall, burnt to ground, months after murder of Elijah Lovejoy
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with support from American Anti-Slavery Society, begins speaking tour; by 1841 is touring with Garrison
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experimental sugar beet farming; encounter w enslaved woman named Rosa while there, reports back to Garrison about people in the town; eventual rupture w her father
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moves to NYC, alone; will spend 9 years here
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no longer going to “follow David’s movements," resolves to keep their finances unentangled as well; asks Ellis Loring to be her legally required Official Man
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break in friendship with Maria Chapman; brief but resolved tension with Garrison; she (and many other white abolitionists) take long step back from activism life, living in NYC w the Hoppers
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basically undoes 1820 Missouri Compormise, strengthened fugitive slave laws w the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; approved California's request to enter Union as free state; banned slave trade in D.C. (still allowing slavery); made no restrictions on whether any future state from New Mexico or Utah territories would be free or slave
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"Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life"; gives all profits to Hopper family
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in Wayland, Mass., to care for her aging ailing father; David's farming had failed again; they needed to economize; will live with David the next 22 years
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decreed KS and NE settlers would vote on slavery's legality
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first such book on religious from the US
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Supreme Court decision that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and therefore they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.
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South Carolina - December 20, 1860
Mississippi - January 9, 1861
Florida - January 10, 1861
Alabama - January 11, 1861
Georgia - January 19, 1861
Louisiana - January 26, 1861
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attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate soldiers
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left many in slavery (in the border states and some ‘contraband’ people) and did not provide justice, atonement or reparations
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10,000 people march in Manhattan, eventually attacking Black-owned businesses, Black & abolitionist homes, a Black orphanage, and murdering >100 Black Americans over 3 days
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on aging
read here: https://archive.org/details/lookingtoward00chiliala -
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primer for freed people learning to read. "Bracingly progressive" as L. Moland puts it, compared to similar publications, though her own contributions to the book perhaps flawed
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passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House of Representatives on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
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at home in LMC's arms
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