Abolitionist Links

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/peopleplaces/harriettubman/

http://www.history.com/topics/slavery

http://www.history.com/videos/origins-of-slavery#origins-of-slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Every Abolitionist in the North is outraged towards the Kansas-Nebraska Act! Once again, the Southern political figure Stephen Douglas is at it again. Now, he has created an act that is in complete favor of the South and slavery. My fellow Abolitionists and myself can agree on one thing, popular sovereignty is not the correct solution. The Kansas-Nebraska Act states that the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska would be organized by popular sovereignty. From this, the formally agreed upon Missouri Compromise line of 36 30 was null and void. This now created a battleground for the North and South towards where slavery would be practiced within the country. I now fear that popular sovereignty will cause more problems than expected towards allowing a territory to vote on whether or not slavery would be allowed there or not. Now, the Kansas Territory is able to vote on slavery. And just as expected, the voted was rigged by pro-slavery individuals. Wouldn't the polls be able to figure out if the votes that where cast did not equal the amount of men that lived in the territory at the time? It just does not make sense. Everyone in the Free-Soil Party is filled with anger! From this, we created an anti-slavery government known as the Free State Party, to ensure justice for Abolitionists everywhere. But, violence soon broke out and the pro-slavery government began invading our headquarters in Kansas to try to keep us from getting our message out of slavery being a bad practice in the South. After all this, an event known as Bleeding Kansas went down in history! John Brown, a strong abolitionist stirred up violence in Kansas, murdering pro-slavery individuals to get his message across of do not mess with the Abolitionists in the North.

This picture depicts the event of Bleeding Kansas, where John 

Brown led the Northern Abolitionists to victory against pro-slavery 

individuals who attacked his fellow group, the Free State Party.

Political Party Formations (1851)

Ever since the Compromise of 1850 came about, political party formations have been spreading the country like wildfire. The two political parties that have formed are known as the Free-Soil Party and the Fire-Eaters. Everyone in the North is in favor of the Free-Soil Party. On the other hand, everyone in the South favors the Fire-Eaters. Since I am strongly against slavery, I obviously take part of the Free-Soil Party. Individuals that take part of the Free-Soil Party, demand that Congress prohibit the expansion of slavery in the new territories out west. This would benefit the north since instead of the addition of several more slave states, slavery would be outlawed, having more free states. In addition, my party also believes that there should be free western homesteads for settlers and federal funding for internal improvements. From this, the slogan we practice against slavery is, "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men". On the other side of the political spectrum, the Fire-Eaters strongly believe that slavery is protected under the Constitution. In addition, they also want the federal government to protect slavery under federal law. This just shocks me! How can the South strongly believe that treating a human being with such disrespect  is fine, just because they have a different appearance then themselves. Also, they even go to the point of threatening the government that in order to protect the South and it's interests, they would secede from the Union to form a Southern Confederacy if necessary. Everyone in the North thinks that the South only looks out for one thing, themselves. This will lead to conflict between the North and the South! I obviously know that the Northern Abolitionists have the best interests out for the slaves of the South, and know that we will do what ever it takes to finally have equality between everyone, just as it is stated in the Constitution "All men are created equal".

Compromise of 1850 (1850)

I just do not understand how any human being can come to the realization that slavery is fine to practice! Now, it seems that everything the North does, the South complains about. Because of this, the South now wants a compromise in favor of slavery. Since I live in the North, I think slavery should be outlawed in the United States, making myself a Northern Abolitionist. In addition, this new Compromise of 1850 is in total favor of the South, leaving out the North's views. The men of Henry Clay, Stephen Douglas, and Daniel Webster are all in favor of slavery, making the compromise lenient towards the South. The only idea that the north gets out of this is California becoming a free state. On the other hand, now the massive state of Texas is slave, there is a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, and this still allows the practice of slavery in the capital. This outcome shows how the north had NO representation in this compromise, forcing strong abolitionists to return runaway slaves to their owners or they would be arrested, and all the new territories from the Mexican Cession get to vote whether or not they are a free or slave state. This just does not make any sense. I have a feeling that if the north does not get any benefits towards prohibiting slavery soon, a civil war could break out between the North and South!

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