In the 1800's there existed the Free states and those states that were classified as slavery states. ... On the other hand, the republicans were totally against the abolition and banning of slave trade in the U.S. ... The North began by banning and completely abolishing slave trade. ... Southerners rejected the interstate rights notion because if it would be implemented, it would mean that Free states would be able to disallow slavery in their states while their objective was to spread and expand slavery to the Free states. Northerners knew that the major objective of the Southerners in ...

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Slaves also could be set free by their owners, if they saved enough money to buy them ownselves and become free. ... All in all, millions of the people captured in Africa for the slave trade never lived to see their destination. ... Helping runaways was illegal even in the free states. ... Funds were being collected so that slaves could be free. ... After the slaves in the United States were freed, slavery b...

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Stewart was also an African American, but was born to free African American parents. ... She states on page 1037 of her Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall that, "Methinks that were the American free people of color to turn their attention more assiduously to moral worth and intellectual improvement, this would be the result: prejudice would gradually diminish, and the whites would be compelled to say, unloose those fetters." ... He realized that "education and slavery were incompatible" (pg. 1072) and knowledge became to him like "valuable bread" that he traded to the poor white urchins in...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 free states and 11 slave states was in trouble. Maine also applied for statehood in 1819, in which it was admitted as a free state. ... This compromise allowed abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia and admission of California as a free state. ...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 Free states and 11 Slave states was in trouble. ... Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. ... I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ...

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It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. ... Northerners said that slavery revoked the human right of being a free person. ... Now the balance of 11 Free states and 11 Slave states was in trouble. ... Representatives were sent from 7 slave and 14 free states. ... I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free." ...

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This caused many problems for example if a free black man tried to stake his claim at land he found gold on he was denied it. ... The first was admission of California as a free state. ... Third, the abolition of slave trade in the district of Columbia, but not slavery itself. ...

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" In the compromise, the California admission issue was resolved and it was admitted as a free state, also, there would be no more slave trade in Washington D.C., and the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico ended in favor of New Mexico. ... This settlement somehow aggravated the problem between the North and the South in congress about the balance of free and slave states, then later on lead to South secession from the Union. ...

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He lived the first twenty or so years of his life being a slave and being traded from plantation to plantation. ... Frederick Douglass didn't have a set thesis in this book, but from my observation in saying that a good thesis would be that, slavery was the most horrific way of living a lifetime, and that living a life of slavery one was most unlucky compared to any free man. ...

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Like Galations 5:1 states, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. ... This means that we should stand firm against everything that is wrong, because Jesus has set everyone free from sin just like the Civil War set slaves free from slavery. ... During the slave trade, African American were transported by Europeans who planned to sell them as slaves. ... The Kansas-Nebraska Act also severely weakened the Democratic party in the free states (Hughes 48-49, Katz 79 -82). ... Just as John 8:36 states, "So if the Son of man sets you free you are free indeed" (McPherson 712-713, H...

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At this time the president had his hand full because the union was going to split in two slave states and Free states.* During this time of political chaos, a time where the southern states would try and cheat the northern out of a fair boat, one man decided to take it upon himself to end slavery. John Brown wanted to set up his own nation if freed slaves in Appalachia. He wanted to get free the slaves from the south, and felt the only way to accomplish this goal was by violence. ... Lincoln had a few concerns on what to do with the freed slaves? ... To take advantage of this the Union se...

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On the fourth night at sea, the slaves freed themselves. ... It stated that every child born in the United States after July 4, 1842 should be considered free. ... In the District of Columbia, slavery and slave trade wouldn't be allowed to exist after July 4, 1845, according to Adam's resolution. ... He shook hands with Cinque and told him, "God willing, we will make you free." ... Some of these freed men tried to raise money by dancing and singing. ...

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In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. ... Its goal was to send the free slaves to Liberia, Africa. ... Abolitionists became important to the Free Soil Party in 1848. ... This helped slaves that were trying to get to the free states or to Canada. ...

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In 1841, New Orleans was known as ground zero for the slave trade. ... Solomon Northrup, an educated free man from the North who was kidnapped into slavery. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ... Even a free man has no right to a trial by jury. ...

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Slaves were property of the slave owner, so, the slaves were continuously traded and families were constantly broken up. ... It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free." ... It was during this realization that Douglass decided to set himself free. ... After Douglass became free, he felt lonely because he did not want to lose his freedom. ...

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Ultimately, slaves are not free as they do not have the choice to not work at their own will. ... Fitzhugh's paper states that black people are "unfitted for the mechanic arts, for trade, and all skillful pursuits." Douglass clearly proves that incorrect by learning a trade at the shipyard, he even earns wages! ...

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Abraham Lincoln was a very great man. He did many great things for our county. Abe Lincoln showed great leadership and he brought our country to a whole. If not for him, our country might still be divided today. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Currently the cou...

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While it stated that all slaves in the rebellion states were freed, the document was not accepted into the Confederacy, and did not instantly free any slaves at all. The Proclamation's focal point was based on territory still owned by the Confederacy, and it made it much harder for the entire slave population to be completely freed. ... If they could keep their ports open, they could trade cotton for weapons such as the repeating rifle, submarines, poison gas, and balloons dropping bombs. ... When a Union officer in Kentucky freed local slaves after a major victory, Union soldiers had t...

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Freedman's Bureau - The Freedman's Bureau was set into place in 1865 to help the former slaves learn how to live free. ... Homestead Act - In 1862 the Homestead Act was passed, providing 160 acres of public land free to any adult citizen or head of family who had lived on the land for five years. ... Sherman Anti-Trust Act - Proposed by Senator John Sherman, this act made it illegal to try to monopolize any trade or commerce. ...

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The American Civil War was a milestone in the history of not only the United States, but the world as well. The Civil War set in stone, the position the United States would take in the world community. The end result of the war, securing the Union, verified that the U.S. would remain a large count...

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While Douglass had learned a skilled trade, prejudice prevented him from making use of it. ... He had to learn to think of himself as a human being rather than as a beast of burden, as a free man rather than as a slave. ...

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Frederick Douglass Born 1818 (?) in Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 in Washington D.C. Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. Never knowing his mother or even the identity of his father, he was born a slave and escaped to the north when he was twenty years...

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