Rev.Richard

Allen-

BethelAfrican

MethodistEpiscopal

Church

American Colonization Society

Quakers

William Penn

John Newton

WilliamWilberforce

Missouri Compromise, 1820

William Lloyd GarrisonThe LiberatorJanuary 1, 1831

Lift up the standard of emancipation. . . . till every chain be broken,

and every bondman set free! . . . I do not wish to think,or to speak,

or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a

moderate alarm . . . tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen . . . .I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate

-- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.

CharlesGrandison

Finney

Amistad mutiny, 1839

Mexican-American War

Wilmot Proviso, 1846

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Law, 1850

Frederick Douglass

Narrativeof theLife of

Frederick Douglass

1845

Harriet Jacobs

He tried his utmost to corrupt the pure principles my grandmother had instilled. . . . I turned from him with disgust and hatred. But he was my master, I was compelled to live under the same roof with him.

He told me I was his property; that I must be subject to his will in all things. . . . But where could I turn for protection? No matter whether the slave girl be as black as ebony or as fair as her mistress. In either case, there is no shadow of law to protect her from insult, from violence, or even from death. . . .

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. They regard such children as property, as marketable as the pigs on the plantation; and it is seldom that they do not make them aware of this by passing them into the slave-trader's hands as soon as possible, and thus getting them out of their sight.

HarrietBeecherStowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1852

Preston Brooks

Charles Sumner

Bleeding Kansas

Dred Scottvs.

Sandford,1857

John Brown's raid, Harper's Ferry, 1859

I see a book kissed here which I suppose to be the Bible . . . . [which] teaches me that all things whatsoever I

would that men should do to me, I should do even so to them. . . . I have endeavored to act on that

instruction. I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.

I believe that to have interfered, as Ihave done,. . . in behalf of His despisedpoor, is no wrong, but right. Now, if it

is deemed necessary that I should forfeitmy life for the furtherance of the ends of

justice, and mingle my blood farther withthe blood of my children and the blood of

millions in this slave country whose rightsare disregarded by wicked, cruel, and

unjust enactments, I say let it be done.

"I, John Brown, am now quite

certain that the crimes of this guilty land will

never be purged away

but with blood.”

"The Saint . . . whose martyrdom . . . will make the gallows glorious

as the Cross."Ralph Waldo Emerson

A counterfeiting law-factory, standing half in a slave land and

half in a free! What kind of laws for free men can

you expect from that?Henry David Thoreau

Lincoln's Inauguration, 1861

Fort Sumter

Sherman's March

With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea

of faces and the unbared heads,

With . . . the sombre faces, With dirges through the night, with the thousand

voices rising strong and solemn