The Slave has his back towards the south bearing the scars of his bondage, looking to the north at for justice as if he knew that he would be heard and one …show more content…
Two of this letters played a huge roll for the Civil War and the fight to abolish slavery. The first two were written in 1844, one was from the Pennsylvanian’s rejecting slavery written to “The First Session of the 28th Congress. The interesting fact of the second letter is that it was a petition from women to end slavery, at the time women were not allowed to vote; however, they gathered in meetings and discussed current social and political issues, they would then write letters and used petitions to influence congress. The third letter is in the center and it is the Draft Resolution to End Slavery from 31 January 1865, it later became the 13th Amendment that same year. The significance is that the same year on April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot at the Ford Theater in