1. 10.2: Protest, Resistance, Violence
Minilesson: Notes Classwork: Fugitive Slave Act Video: Story of US - Division

2. Fugitive Slave Act
How it worked:
- slave owners go into court in their states
- show evidence slaves escaped
- court officials identify validity of claim
- possibly send US marshals [** paid extra $ to return the person]
not popular in North
abolitionists saw it as violation of Am rights
violent resistance as result of slave catchers

3. Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman “ Moses” face of the movement
never as organized as many thought
“conductors” aid fugitive slaves north “station” by “station”
annoyance to slave owners
- focused more attention on the injustice of slavery
- symbol of resistance to oppression

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
huge bestseller [300,000 copies in North and more in England]
- England did not support South in CW and banned slavery shortly after
overexaggerated horrors of slave life
- connected on personal level
white masters immoral only because of slavery
"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”
- Abraham Lincoln