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=Name:My name is Lee John. Harrison. I'm an 21year old abolitionist who was born and raised in Charlet, Virginia. My parents were slaves, and were treated badly, and with a lack of respect for their hard work, that's why I've choosen to be an abolitionist. I want to fight for slave rights and their freedom.=

=A page from the journal of= = = ==Entry Number 1: John C. Calhoun was an United States representative, a senator of state and Vice President. John was born in Abbeville South Carolina. He was bornon March 18, 1782 and died on March 31, 1850. John C. Calhoun was a man who was for slavery and said that it was a positive good. personally I really don't think he was a good man, but very educated.== ==John Caldwell Calhoun was the man who said that slavery was a positive good, I strongly disagree with this statement. He stated in his creed that anyone who acts on the opposite principal is prepared to become a slave. I think Calhoun was a good man with the exeption of his thoughts and feelings about slavery. Calhoun was a very educated man and a great senator. He said that if we cancede an inch, consesion will follow.==



==Entry Number 2: Many people have heard of The Underground Railroad and thought it was actually a train that ran underground. The Underground Railroad was a vast network of Quakers that helped fugitive slaves escape to the North. This network ran on a password, "A friend with friends." The Railroad was guided by the North Star and was used at night. This network was the best thing that every happened to the slaves/ African Americans.==

==The conductor of The Underground Railroad was a woman by the name of Harriet Tubman. She helped many if not all of the fugitive slaves escape. The railroad traveled all through the Eastern U.S. It started at South Carolina and Georgia. The railroads purpose was to get the slaves to N.Y. or Pennsylvania, until The Fugitive Slave Laws were astablished.==

==Entry Number 3: Harriet Tubman was a very strong and educated women for an escaped slave. Harriet conducted The Underground Railroad and helped hundreds of fugitive slaves escape to the North. Harriet is the most couragous women of all times to me, she was very smart and intelligent. I just wondered how she knew were to go at night with a star guiding her for about a weeks worth of traveling just to show them what freedom is really about. Harriet Tubman is one of my idols.==

The biggest group Harriet ever conducted was a group of 11 to Canada. On this trip one of the Quakers that were