Rashawn+Phillips

=Name://Marcellus Keith Evans// Phillips I'm twenty-two,I live in Virginia.I once escaped this dreaded fat thing called slavery, but thanks to that crazy thing called the Fugitive Slave Act I was caught and took back to my master in Virginia.I also have one son Marcellus Keith Evans Jr. I was born March 5,1828.This is my father.=

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=Entry Number 1: The Fugitive Slave Act was founded September 18,1850,but it was repealed 14 years later on June 28,1864.The Fugitive Slave Act was a federal law that basically said all runawys slaves had to be took back to their masters in their home states and it also said that anyone that helped any runaways would be fined 1,000 dollars.Also the only reason that Fugitive Slave Act came to be was because the North told the South if you give us Califorina we will agree with The Fugitive Slave Act.= =I think this act was just a way for the south to get their slaves back. I also think the north was kinda a paradox because they said they were against slavery but they still said if you give us California we will agree with the Fugitive Slave Act.=



=Entry Number 2: Nat Turner was born on October 2,1800 in Southampton County,Virginia. Unfortunately he died in his home state Virginia on November 11,1831. Before he died he was a priest, but he wasn't remembered for that he was mostly remembered for his productived killing spree. He was a religious man and one way you can know is because his killing spree was made possible because he said that God came to him and said kill your enemies with their own weapons.= =I think Nat Turner was a very religious man who fought (well killed in his situation) for what he believed in. I also think the killing spree was the right thing to do because if he would have tried to speak his mind he probably would've been beaten or wrost (KILLED).=



=Entry Number 3: Jonh C. Calhoun was born on March 18, 1782 in Abbeville,South Carolina.He died on March 31,1850 in Washington,DC.He also was vice president. He aruged about wether or not states had the right to nullify a federal law it considered unconsitutional.He was a man who believe that slavery was a postive good and was needed in the United States.= =I think that he was a man that believed slavery was a positive good because he was a lazy snob who believe that he was all and mighty and better than everybody else.=



Essential Questions
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? If you understand slavery you will understand why some of the events that occured occured.==