Protest, Resistance, and Violence Section 10-2 pp

Fugitive Slaves and Underground RR Fugitive Slave Act – Part of the Compromise of 1850 – Terms Fugitives not allowed jury trial Fugitives could not testify on own behalf Officials paid more to return slaves Harsh fines for those helping slaves escape

Fugitive Slaves and Underground RR Resisting the Fugitive Slave Act – Help African Americans escape to Canada – Personal Liberty Laws Passed by individual states Forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves Guaranteed jury trials – Drag trials out - make expensive and inconvenient for slave-owners

Fugitive Slaves and Underground RR The Underground RRUnderground RR – Network of abolitionists helping slaves escape to freed Harriet Tubman: – Famous “conductor” who helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom – Known as “Moses”

Fugitive Slaves and Underground RR Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe – Showed moral, not just political, objections to slavery – Renewed debate about slavery

Tension in KS and NB Kansas-Nebraska Act – Proposed by Senator Stephen Douglas – Proposed dividing NB Territory into 2 states – Use popular sovereignty to determine slavery – Repealed Missouri Compromise

Violence in “Bleeding Kansas” Settlers from North and South rush to Kansas in a competition of popular sovereignty Pro-slavery “Border Ruffians” from Missouri vote illegally in election Pro-slavery forces win and set up gov’t in Lecompton, KS Anti-slavery forces object and set up govt’ in Topeka, KS

Violence in “Bleeding Kansas” The Sack of Lawrence – Proslavery forces destroy the antislavery town of Lawrence, KS The Pottawatomie Massacre – Radical abolitionist John Brown led attack of proslavery men at Pottawatomie – Sparked violence across Kansas  “Bleeding Kansas”

Violence in “Bleeding Kansas” Violence in Senate – Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner for delivering an antislavery speech in the Senate – Showed division between North and South in Congress