Harriet Jacobs
- Born in 1813
- She gave birth to 2 children, a boy named Benny, a girl named Ellen.
- She had ran away and hide for 7 years 1835-1841
- gain her feedom from her friend by purchsing her with $300 in 1852
- "Incidents life of a slave girl" was published in 1861
- Died in March 7, 1897, in Washington D.C.
Slave trade
- Began in the early 5500s in western Africa
- The blacks were being tranported by ships
- They would be sale to the whites
- And across the Alantic ocean to America, mostly to the Southern
- And then they would turn them into slaves
Planation life
- Strong Blacks male slaves were to put into filed
- They had to pick at least 200 pounds of cottons everyday
- They always work over time
- Only gain pay with cold bacon
- Do not gain enough of sleep
Abolition Movement
- In which the abolitionist attempted to end slavery
- The Underground Railroad Act
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Breecher Stowe
- Antislavery newspapers and Journals
- "Incident in the life of a slave girl" By Harriet Jacobs
- So there would people that used their knowledge to abolist slavery, by telling the people in the North, how slave life were like in the South
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Fugitive slave act
- A law that made any federal official who did not arrest any runaway slaves to pay or put in jail
- It's the compromise of 1850
- Or any one that provide the slaves with help would be put in jail for 6 months or pay $1,000
- This law would make the abolitionist mad, because that they wanted slavery to end, instead they want them to arrest them
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