1. Abolitionists

2. Slavery under attack within
The slave resisted a number of ways
Broke tools
Ran away
Intentionally destroyed crop
Helped others to escape
Did as little work as possible
Agitated for their release when possible
Bought themselves out of slavery
Secretly supported runaways

3. Slavery under attack without
Anti-slavery Advocates resisted in a number of ways
Pamphlets were distributed protesting slavery
Legal mandates were sought
Moral suasion was used to deploy slavery
Slave uprisings occurred.

4. Underground Railroad Routes

5. How to escape in a quilt!

6. Harriet Tubman Harriet Ross was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820
fearing she would be sold South
she made her escape
Tubman was given a piece of paper by a white neighbor with two names, and told how to find the first house on her path to freedom

7. Harriet Tubman
believed to have conducted 300 persons to freedom in the North
Time and again she made successful visits to the South
She had a very short and pointed rule or law of her own, which implied death to any who talked of giving out and going back.
Never lost a “traveler”

8. Harriet Tubman
During the Civil War, Tubman served as a soldier, spy, and a nurse.
Why so important?
Proof that people could
win back against slavery

9. Nat Turner was born a slave in 1800.
He was very spiritual and “self- educated biblical scholar.”
planned to attack to move from plantation to plantation killing as they went
hoped that fear by the whites and courage on their part would create

10. Captured Nat Turner group 60-70 slaughtered 57 whites.
The white militia counterattacked and stopped the uprising.
Nat Turner escaped
finally captured
executed on November 11, 1831.
Became a symbol for slaves

11. John Brown a well known abolitionist,
planned a slave uprising that was
He led a gang of people against Harper’s Ferry.
His force was quickly apprehended and he was brought to trial and hung.
he spoke eloquently about the evils of slavery.

12. Frederick Douglass 1817-1895 Born into slavery and escaped in 1838.
Abolitionist who embraced integration.
Was an articulate spokesperson for African America rights.
Considered a black “philosopher and ideologist.”

13. Fugitive Slave Act
permitted the recapture and extradition of escaped slaves
fines and prison sentences for people who helped runaways.
Meant even North America was not safe
forced runaways to flee to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and even Europe.

14. Dread Scott Case Dred Scott sued for his freedom in 1846.
Taken into free territory by his owner but returned to Missouri, a slave state, Scott argued that his earlier residency made him a free man. Finally in 1857, the Supreme Court found that Scott, as a bondsperson,
was not recognized as a U.S. citizen under the Constitution,
and therefore, not eligible to sue in the courts.
Meant slaves were just property, not people