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The Fugitive Slave Law was passed in 1850. This law was meant to help slave owners capture escaped slaves by making it a crime to help an escaped slave.
Harriet Tubman was a slave who escaped slavery and began helping other slaves escape slavery as well. She was also a Union spy during the civil war.
Emancipation Proclamation
no he was from the north so he was called a parial abolitionist.
Stono Rebellion (1739) Largest slave uprizing in early America. OPn the morning of September 9, near the Stono River, 20 miles from Charleston, SC, slaves gathered, raded a firearmes shop, and headed south South. Killing more then 20 whites as they went. Other slaves joined the rebellion until the group was 60 strong. Whites set out in armed pursuit, and by dusk, half the slaves were dead and half escaped, most were eventually captured and executed.
Fugitives
Many slaves escaped. The name of one who escaped and was recaptured is Moses Roper. There was a society who helped them to escape and they had a system called the "underground railroad" which helped lots of slaves, lead by Harriet Tubman. Another famous escaped slave was Fredrick Douglass, who escaped from the south and fled to the north to become a distinguished abolitionist.
Slaves escaped to Detroit, Erie, and Boston.
maroons. Continental Academy, huh.......
100,000 slaves escaped through the undreground railroad to freedom 50,000 slaves were reported to have escaped between 1830 and 1860.
A person whose business was catching escaped slaves to return them to their owners was called a "slave catcher."
ran for their lives to Hawaii
Slaves wanted their freedom. Many escaped to Canada.
52%
No, they should not.
Enough
A village built by escaped slaves.