How The Fugitive Slave Act Ignited A 'Struggle For America's Soul'
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War ... The Peabody Sisters: Three Women who Ignited ...
William Wells Brown, 1814?-1884. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
... Fugitive Slave Law, to hunt down the runaway. Page iv. slave and return him to ... Because he is a fugitive slave from the American house of bondage, and ...
runaway slaves to Mexico and the road to the Civil War ...
"The Underground Railroad to the North was salvation for many US slaves before the Civil War. But during the same decades, thousands of people in the ...
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War. Andrew Delbanco tells how fugitive slaves both forced northerners to.
The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More ...
In the tempestuous mid-nineteenth century, as slavery consumed congressional debate and America ... These included the Fugitive Slave Law; the Kansas-Nebraska Act ...
Mid-1800s American Sectionalism: Understanding the Divisions
... slavery, and enacted a stricter Fugitive Slave Law. However, these ... struggle for defining the nation's soul and future direction. Understanding ...
“As If Their Own Liberty Were at Stake” (Chapter 3) - Freedom Seekers
... fugitive slave conflict between the northern and ... Fugitive Slave Law might well be the worst piece of legislation in American history.
Uncle Tom's Cabin as Religious Text
The famous 1834 Lane debates on slavery that Weld instigated pitted radical abolitionists against colonizationists, and ended in catastrophe for Beecher and his ...
... American born into slavery who escaped to become the country's foremost Black abolitionist. ... soul or the his- tory of a great university ...
Lincoln, Stowe, and the "Little Woman/Great War" Story
... Fugitive Slave Act. Its positive reviewers wondered whether it would ... In his book Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America (2006), Evan ...
Pan-Africanism - African American Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
Nationalism, Identity Formation, and the Struggle for Independence. The works in this section reflect the diversity of ideological positioning ...
Wyandot, Shawnee, and African American Resistance to Slavery in ...
Some, however, urged political action or willingly broke the law to support the efforts of fugitive slaves to gain freedom. Free blacks chafed under harsh Black ...
Social contract theory, African American slave narratives, and the ...
fugitive slave legislation that delineated a legitimate free Black from an escaped piece of property. ... act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein ...
The Bible, the Revolution, and the Debate over Slavery in the ...
In the years leading to the American Civil War, a debate raged among the clergy over the legitimacy of chattel slavery. Ministers on both sides of the issue ...
The Struggle against Slavery in Revolutionary and Early National ...
Additionally, the practical effects of the war gave large numbers of enslaved people an opportunity to seize their freedom; both the British and American armies ...
Working together to survive and thrive: The struggle for Black lives ...
As previously mentioned, the redemption for the soul of America that ... America's most heinous acts of terror may not be an overreach.
Six of those twenty-six were slaves. By the time of Lincoln's departure in 1861, the African American population had grown to 234 – approximately 2.5 percent of ...
August Wilson's Twentieth Century Slave Narrative
Their very status as Black Americans has rendered them subject to forced labor and imprisonment. The law and criminal justice system, in their experience, ...
The Canadian Fugitive Slave Archive and the Concept of Refuge.
In the context of a transatlantic world where slaveholding and free states, held by competing empires, often shared borders, crossing these borders promised ...
John Brown (abolitionist) - Wikipedia
He believed that he was "an instrument of God," raised to strike the "death blow" to slavery in the United States, a "sacred obligation." Brown was the leading ...