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Abolitionists were inspired by what type of writing from escaped slaves?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist such as seen in her novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
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Abolitionists were often inspired by narratives written by escaped slaves, known as slave narratives. These first-hand accounts provided insight into the brutality of slavery and helped to build public support for the abolitionist movement.
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What are 3 ways abolitionists worked to free slaves?
They organized the under ground railroad which was a path at which slaves escaped.
What actions of the abolitionists greatly disturbed southern slave owners?
The Abolitionists helped slaves to escaped to Canada where slavery was illegal, this action make the southern felt they were robbing their property.
What are some slaves that have escaped?
Nightjohn did but he came back to teach reading and writing.
Who help the black slaves escaped by the undergruond railraod?
Abolitionists, who were people who knew that holding another person as a slave was evil and wrong, and were willing to risk their lives to help runaway slaves.
Who are the people who helped the slaves escape?
.the abolitionists
Who was happy about Fugitive Slave Law and who was not?
Slave holders were in favor of the Fugitive Slave Law as it required that slaves that escaped to the North would have to be returned to their owners. In the North the anti slavery abolitionists were against the law. They were anti slavery to begin with and wanted slaves who escaped to the North to be considered freed slaves.
Who helped escaped slaves?
People who knew that it was evil and wrong to hold other people in slavery, often called Abolitionists, because they wanted to abolish slavery.
What are the blacks called who lead slaves out of slavery?
The blacks and other people who led slaves out of slavery were known as abolitionists. Harriet Tubman, is the best known of the escaped slaves who returned to the south to help other slaves escape. She was a primary conductor of the Underground Railroad.
How did Abolitionists fix the tracks on the Underground Railroad?
The Underground Railroad wasn't a literal railroad, so there were no tracks. It was a metaphor for the routes that escaped slaves took on their journey North.
How do you use the word manumission in a sentence?
"The process of manumission allowed a slaveowner to declare a slave to be free." "Abolitionists made payments to some owners to encourage the manumission of their escaped slaves."
What methods did many of the enslaved African Americans use to find their way north?
The methods of how slaves escaped were orally, Underground Railroad, and by singing spirituals that explained were to go and who to meet. Abolitionists traveled to the south to help slaves and many slaves traveled by night and rested by daylight.
Which northern cities were destination for escaped slaves?
Slaves escaped to Detroit, Erie, and Boston.
