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When slavery started
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Period: to
all of the northern states abolished slavery
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the U.S congress outlawed the African slave trade
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debate
there was a debate about the federal government right to restrict slavery -
underground railroad
freeing black people and antislavery had began helping those escape from southern plantations to the northern via Underground Railroad -
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abolish slavery
from 1830's to the 1860's the movement to abolish slavery in America was gaining strength to do so -
compromise negotiated
there was a another tenuous compromise to negotiate the resolve the question of slavery in territories -
slavery increasing
in just 50 years the slavery population reached nearly 4 million -
end of slavery
Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation -
The END of slavery for good
he made it official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”