The abolitionist movement wasn't only about white activists -- it depended on Black leaders such as Tubman. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 rendered free states inhospitable to fugitives, so she ran ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ... who established a trading and raiding state in the 1850's which linked up with the Ovimbundu in what is now modern Angola The most famous trader ...

Once they reached a free port, the fugitives jumped ship to freedom. The passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 made escape from bondage harder than ever. Under the provisions of the act ...

As deleterious as President Wilson’s racist presidential employment rules were against Black civil servants, the earlier draconian 1850 Fugitive Slave law changed America and endangered every ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...