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= Name:My name is Mary Louise McCline Richardson. I am a free black. I was born on August 1, 1855. I am twenty-four years old. I live in New york, New York. I believe in Christianity. My daddy is a slave. I haven't really seen much of my father by him being a slave and me having a life of my own. My mother is a free black. I see much of my mother because she is free like me! = = I also have a family of my own. I have one daughter name Lanai Star Richardson. She is five years old. I also have one husband name Leroy Zhay Richardson. I met my wonderful husband in Manhattan, New York. Then we later moved to New York, New York and later had Lanai. We love our life as free blacks but, I would like to help more people enjoy this peace and freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =  = =

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Entry Number 1; January12,1860
== John Brown  == ==John Brown was born on May 8, 1800. He was a abolitionist. He was againist slavery. He was born in Torrington, Connecticut. He worked as farmer, wool merchant,tanner, and a spectculator. He participated in The UnderGround Railroad, and then estblished the League of Gileadites- which is an organization that worked to protect escaped slaves from slave catchers. == ==On October 16, 1859 John Brown led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at the ''Harpers Ferry, Virgina. The whties were afraid that the slaves would rebel and attack. Many abolitionists were arrested. He then got captured and got hanged. To the southerners(slaves) John Brown was a symbol of the North to end slavery. To the Northern abolitionists John Brown was a saint and a martyr. A Martyr- is one who suffers for the sake of a principal. ==

 Dred Scott
==Dred Scott was born a Missouri slave in 1795. He had lived with his master in Illonois and the Wisconsin Territory. He asked the Federal Court for his freedom since he lived in a free territory. So he had to take his case to the supreme court. In March 1857, Cheif Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Dred Scott could not be freed by the court because he wasn't a citizen and he couldn' t enter the suit in a federal court. Taney further ruled that congress did not have the power/ the right to end slavery in a state or a territory. == == Dred Scott was an abolitionist because he was against slavery because he was a slave. The surpreme court decision about Dred scott was that being a slave or free you are not a citizen of theUnited States. My Opinion on this is that Dred Scott should be freed because he lives in a free territory and it's hard being the only one in the territory not free.I also think every slave should have their freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Number 3: May3, 1870==

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lincoln was born in the kentucky frontier in 1809. He mainly taught hisself. He changed job after job after job. He finally made a decision to read law and he becamean attorney in 1836 ssential Questions