Harriet Tubman was born a slave and grew up working as a servant on the plantation. She escaped from the South to the North with thousands of other slaves using the Underground Tunnel, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by southern slaves in efforts to escape to free states. Tubman became a conductor who assisted the slaves to escape from the south using the tunnel. She made 19 trips into slave-owning states of the South, rescuing some 300 men, women, and children just before the Civil War.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney in Document E states, “Altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to …show more content…
Many people came up with innovative ideas to somehow plan their escape. One of them was Harry Box Brown Story from Document F, who tried to escape to Pennsylvania by sitting in a cargo box.
Uncle Tom’s cabin, an anti- slavery novel (Document B) which talks about a long suffering black slave. This book became the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. This novel was very well written by Harriet Stowe which inspired many abolitionists to rise up to fight against slavery and freedom. Infact this novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
Slaves were treated as property, were taken away of their basic rights and freedom. If they violated and went against their slave owners, then they would be beaten causing severe injuries and also leaving them with no medical attention. To avoid being controlled and beaten up, many slaves escaped their plantation fields. Thus, the Fugitive Slave Law 1793 (Document C) and the Fugitive Slave Act 1850 (Document D) was passed to provide return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory and also control the amount of escaped slaves. Numerous bounty hunters traveled across states to find the escaped slaves and bring them back to their owners for a certain price. Upon their capture, slaves would undergo a trail and face charges from their slave owner. After their return slave owners would stricken and tighten
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney in Document E states, “Altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to …show more content…
Many people came up with innovative ideas to somehow plan their escape. One of them was Harry Box Brown Story from Document F, who tried to escape to Pennsylvania by sitting in a cargo box.
Uncle Tom’s cabin, an anti- slavery novel (Document B) which talks about a long suffering black slave. This book became the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. This novel was very well written by Harriet Stowe which inspired many abolitionists to rise up to fight against slavery and freedom. Infact this novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
Slaves were treated as property, were taken away of their basic rights and freedom. If they violated and went against their slave owners, then they would be beaten causing severe injuries and also leaving them with no medical attention. To avoid being controlled and beaten up, many slaves escaped their plantation fields. Thus, the Fugitive Slave Law 1793 (Document C) and the Fugitive Slave Act 1850 (Document D) was passed to provide return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory and also control the amount of escaped slaves. Numerous bounty hunters traveled across states to find the escaped slaves and bring them back to their owners for a certain price. Upon their capture, slaves would undergo a trail and face charges from their slave owner. After their return slave owners would stricken and tighten