she freed hundreds of slaves in the underground railroad and she participated in the civil war on the side of the union.
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The abolition of slavery was in 1865
Frederick Douglass
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It would hardly have pushed slavery out of sight, when the new Fugitive Slave Act drew it to the attention of millions of Northerners who had never taken an interest in it before. A wise effort? We might say a well-meant effort. But the admission of the huge territory of California seriously upset the balance that had been achieved by the Missouri Compromise.