Constitution and Causes
This constitutional clause was added for tax purposes, granting only partial citizenship status to the country's slaves.
The 3/5ths Compromise
This famous abolitionist was the founder and editor-in-chief of the original newspaper for the cause, "The Liberator".
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Douglass, born a slave, was secretly taught the rudiments of this skill, invoking a sense of independence in him.
What is literacy?
This woman has the name most associated with the so-called "Underground Railroad", an escape route made up of refuges of anti-slave alleys with good hiding places, helping over 700 slaves steal themselves from slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This clause sought to gradually end the Atlantic Slave trade in the U.S. by saying no slave ships can legally disembark here by 1808
The Slave Trade Clause
This abolitionist, accompanied by his sons, massacred several slave owning families, and used a rag-tag team of runaway slaves to try to occupy Harper's Ferry in Virginia, starting the Civil War themselves, to no avail.
Who is John Brown?
Douglass was sent to this so-called "Slave Breaker" to have his disobedience brutalized out of him, but Douglass stood up to him and gave him the clobbering of a lifetime.
Who was Edward Covey?
The first black woman to successfully sue a white man, this anti slavery activist with a two-line poem for a name was also an early fighter for women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This invention by Eli Whitney made slavery immensely more lucrative, increasing the phenomenon of slave auctions and family separations.
He was murdered by an anti abolitionist mob for expressing his views against slavery, prompting John Brown to vow that he will devote his life to the destruction of slavery.
Who is Elijah Lovejoy?
This free woman-of-color, the love of Douglass' life, facilitated his escape and funded their lives together as his career as a speech giver was still brewing?
Who is Anna Murray Douglass?
This nearby country had set the example for many abolitionists by being the first place in history to have a successful slave revolution, where the slaves started their own republic after kicking out their slavers, lead by the legendary Toussaint Louverture.
What is Haiti / The Haitian Revolution?
This is the false belief that many Founding Fathers had about slavery's end.
What is "gradually fading away"?
He led a four day rebellion of slaves against their masters, resulting in almost 60 white people's deaths. In punishing his community, over a hundred slaves or people of color not involved were punished or murdered and he was brutally executed.
Who is Nat Turner?
This was the year Douglass made his escape.
What is 1838?
This controversial Act forced Northerners to participate in the evils of slavery by making it legally required to return runaway slaves to the plantations from whence they escaped.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe gave many Americans compassion towards slaves and anger towards slavery - leading Lincoln to approach Stowe to say "So, you're the little woman that started this great war?"
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This American novelist and "transcendentalist" philosopher, when he wasn't writing about the beauties of nature in his masterpiece "Walden", wrote for peaceful, non-violent protest which he called "Civil disobedience", inspiring abolitionists, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and beyond.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Inspired by reading his "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" this future politician was encouraged by Douglass to write this famous speech of the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This horrific 1857 court case, often considered the worst in our history, claimed that black people had no right to legal representation in American Courts, right on the eve of the Civil War.
What was the Dred Scott case?