The Coming of Civil War
In response to several unsuccessful slave rebellions in the early nineteenth century, laws were passed throughout the South that were designed to restrict the lives of slaves and free Blacks. This act passed by the US Congress in 1850 required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the slave-owner and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
The Fourteenth Amendment gave formerly enslaved peoples in the United States of America this legal status.
What is citizenship?
This manumitted woman from Annapolis is said to have birthed a lineage of exceptional individuals in the capital city of Maryland, although her legacy has been slow to be fully reckoned with by the community’s local elite today.
Who is Charity Folks?
In 1841, the US supreme court ruled that participants in the Amistad Rebellion were legally free due to this international ruling upheld by countries in the Americas around the mid-eighteenth century.
What is the Ban of the International Slave Trade?
This federal institution founded in the aftermath of the Civil War was established to assist freedpeople’s transition to freedom with food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
In the early nineteenth century, members of the American Colonization Society controversially promoted the repatriation of manumitted and enslaved Black Americans to this country in West Africa.
What is Liberia?
While Black men certainly enlisted in the Union army once allowed, Black women and men also aided the Union war effort in these two nonmilitary capacities:
What are foragers and spies?
A majority of Black union soldiers were formerly enslaved peoples from confederate states who risked these two possible consequences if captured by confederate troops:
What is re-enslavement or execution.
In the first meeting of this series to promote social improvement among African Americans which took place in 1830, leaders of the free Black community focused their agenda around programs that enhanced job prospects for Black Americans.
What is Black Convention Movement?
This Southampton County preacher and prophet led one of the nation’s most influential slave rebellions in 1831. When militias seized his rebels, he successfully evaded authorities for more than a month by hiding in the Virginian swamps.
Who is Nat Turner?
Black leaders and union soldiers advocated for these two results from a victory against the confederacy.
What is abolition and citizenship?
This network was often referred to as the “aboveground arm of the underground railroad” and provided provided shelter, food, clothing, legal services, and jobs to runaways.
What are vigilance committees?
This landmark US Supreme Court case in 1857 changed the political landscape of slavery’s permanence by establishing that enslaved peoples in the United States had no legal right to citizenship.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This Black abolitionist famous for her landmark speech "Ain't I A Woman?” had quite a bone to pick with her male peers who did not see women’s suffrage as inseparable from the fight for abolition.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This Protestant denomination was founded by Black Americans excluded from white methodist churches and served as the facilitator for a vast network of charity and community-led social welfare projects in free Black communities
What is Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church?