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Uncle Toms cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852 -
Kansas Nebraska Act Passed
Passed May 8th, 1854. This Act Passed.
The Kansas and Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas -
First Issue of the Liberator
The Liberator (1831–1865) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp in 1831. Garrison co-published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of December 29 1995