2. Work slow Playing “Sick” Break tools “Theft” Poisoning Food Run away Rebellion Gabriel Prosser 

3. Over 1,000 Mainly in upper south Ran to the North or Canada

4. Slaves created songs with secret messages Examples (Don’t copy) Swing Low Sweet Chariot Let My People Go Wade in the Water

5. A series of safe houses slaves used to get to freedom

7. Leader of Underground Railroad Homes, barns, woods, trails north 19 missions 300 people

8. Violently overthrowing slave masters Usually by killing them and their families Very rare

9. Nat Turner, 1831 Led a slave rebeliion in Virginia Killed 70

10. · Turner was caught and hanged. His revolt, however, increased Southerner’s fears of slave revolts.

11. Gabriel Prosser 1800 Literate Richmond, VA 1000 slaves “Death or liberty” Denmark Vescey, 1822 Telemanque, born in Africa or W. Indies Free, literate, preacher Charleston Missouri Compromise 100 men

12. Resisting Slavery · Many slaves tried to escape to the North. Few were successful. · In 1831, an African-American preacher named Nat Turner led a revolt in Virginia, killing 57 whites.

13. Consequences Whites could be Jailed or fined Blacks could be killed

14. Under this law, it gave slave owners the right to organize a posse to recapture runaway slaves. No African American was considered safe. Courts and police had to help all over the United States. Private citizens had to help, too to recapture the slaves.

15. He escaped from slavery He held speeches asking for the end of slavery

16. A white person who wanted to abolish (end) slavery

17. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom