The Missouri Compromise was proposed by James Monroe to allow the state of Missouri to join the Union as a slave state; however, the "compromise" was that an imaginary line would be drawn at 36" 30', and all states north of that line (except Missouri) would be Free states. As slavery was beginning to consume the nation, Nat Turner led the bloodiest slave rebellion in American history. William Lloyd Garrison, in an attempt to stamp out slavery, published his antislavery newspaper The Liberator; and Frederick Douglass, a former slave and an abolitionist, helped William Lloyd Garrison publish this newspaper. A key figure in hiding runaway slaves was Harriet Tubman; she worked with the Underground Railroad. This "railroad" was a system of
