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Slavery
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Amistad Mutiny
Slaves aboard the Spanish ship Amistad took over the ship and sailed to New yourk where they tried to plea for freedom but were rejected and escaped the slavery and traveled back to Africa. -
Anti-Slavery Society Splits
Anti- Slavery Society splits because of a disagreement about women's rights. They split into moderate Abolitionists, and radical Abolitionists. -
The North Star
Frederick Douglass founded The North Star, which directed runaway slaves to Canada. -
Free Soil Party
Political party focused on ending slavery is founded, and eventually merges with the Republicans. -
Seneca Falls Convention
First women's rights convention held in New York. -
Harriet Tubman Escapes
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery in Maryland and immediately returns to help others escape. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 negotiates California being admitted as a free state. Texas, a slave state, cedes some territory but gets debt relief from the federal government. The slave trade (although not slavery itself) is banned in Washington, D.C. Finally, residents of the territories of Utah and New Mexico are allowed to decide on their own if they will allow slavery. -
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth delivers arguably the most powerful speech in american history at the Women's Rights Convention in Ohio. -
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas becomes the most important, and violent state. Most settlers in Kansas were anti-slavery. However, just across Kansas’ eastern border was the pro-slavery state of Missouri. Missouri “Border Ruffians” violently opposed Kansas “Free Staters,” who retaliated in kind. The brutal series of conflicts in “Bleeding Kansas” continued until Kansas joined the U.S. as a free state in 1861—the year the Civil War began. -
Henry "Box" Brown
Runaway slave Henry Brown ships himself to Philadelphia, so he could be free.
