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John Brown put little stock in abolition through peaceful means. In 1855, he headed to the slave state of Kansas.
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With the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the war merged with the abolitionist cause. But the Union had to win, or the Proclamation would mean nothing.Â
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By killing of five pro-slavery men, John Brown hoped to strike terror in the hearts of pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.Â
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Harriet Beecher Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery through the eyes of its victims.
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The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal.
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In the spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail as protests for his release turned violent.
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Although fighting for a common cause, abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison suffered a major falling out.
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The death of Harriet Beecher Stowe's son allowed her to imagine the pain of an enslaved mother's separation from her child.Â
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George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release led Massachusetts to declare that state officials could not take part in the recapture of a fugitive slave.
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In 1841, Frederick Douglass agreed to join William Lloyd Garrison to advocate for the abolitionism of slavery.
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After having escaped to New York, Frederick Douglass and his wife Anna moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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In September of 1838, escaped slave Frederick Douglass and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket.
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