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Slavery in The South
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Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman created the Underground railroad to help free slaves from the south. It was a network of different routes and safe-houses to get slaves to free states. -
William Lloyd Garrison
Wrote and published “The Liberator”, which was an anti-slavery newspaper. He was passionate about ending slavery, and was a well known member of the abolitionist movement. -
Nat Turner Revolt
Nat Turner was an enslaved African American. He led a rebellion in Virginia with other runaway slaves, and killed around 60 white men. The military eventually suppressed the revolt, and Nat turner went into hiding. He was eventually put on trial, convicted, and hanged. -
Abolitionist Movement
In 1833, the same year that Britain outlawed slavery, The Anti slavery society was created. It was run by religious americans, and slaves who escaped from bondage. Everyone viewed slavery as an abomination, and their main goal was to stop it. -
Fredrick Douglass
An American abolitionist who escaped slavery in Maryland to go to New York. He eventually lead the abolitionist movement, and became famous for his anti slavery writings, and recruited African Americans to fight against slavery. -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott claimed that living in a free state made him free. Chief Justice Roger Taney claimed that black people will never be considered citizens in free states, and sued Dred Scott for claiming to be free. -
Fugitive SLave Act
Declared that all slave owners have the right to get their slaves back if they run away, even if they run away to a free state. -
Enlisting Black Soldiers
The Emancipation Proclamation made African Americans eligible to fight for their freedom in the Union. By the time the war was over, about 180,000 black men served in the U.S. army to fight against slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Claimed all enslaved people to be free in all confederate states run by the union. This transformed the war from a union war to a war for freedom. -
Slavery Abolished
The 13th Ammendment officially abolished slavery everywhere in the United States, after the Union won the Civil War.