Kansas+Means

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My name is Denise Woodson and I was born on April 1, 1805. That means I'm a joke. I am fifteen years old. My pa's name is Henry Woodson and my ma's name is Anne Woodson.I was born a free slave by my ma. The white people don't know what to do with me so I live with my pa. I help keep my pa's cabin clean while he goes to work. One day the white people finally tell me that I can be free, so my pa says it's time for me to move up north and live a better life. John and Rob Smith helped go up to the North. I've been living up here for three whole years. When I become old enough to marry I'm going back down south to get my pa.=====

=A page from the journal of a woman in the north=

=**Entry Number 1:What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act and what do I think of it?**=

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This law dealt only with Kansas and Nebraska as we can see. It was impossible to revoke the disagreement over the extension of slavery in the area. They wanted free slaves to move west of Kansas because of the expanding area. Many attempts were made but losst because of the South's action to the Missouri Compromise. Mr.Douglas nearly became successful in doing so. Later this act resulted into the civil war.=====

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=Entry Number 2:Who is Nat Turner and what do I think of him?=

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Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 and died November 11, 1831. He was a free black priest and believed that God told him to get his people out of slavery. Nat and some other slaves went on a killing spree murdering 55 whites. They ran around killing whites for 2 whole days until they themselves were either captured or killed. Nat escaped and hid for a month and got caught again. Him and 16 others were hung. The whites began more fearful of blacks they killed 200 blacks in that area. I think that maybe he was called to do that job. I think that he was brave and yet knew the consequences of doing what he did.=====

=Entry Number 3:Who is Harriet Tubman and what do I think of her=

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Harriet Tubman lived from 1820-1913. Harriet was a slave herself before making her courageous escape. She'd come back down to help other slaves escape and know what it felt like to be free. She lead 300 slaves to freedom including her own family. During the Civil War, she had different disguises freeing more than 700 slaves. I think that she had to have been really braven to be a woman. She led over 1,000 people to freedom and they never could catch her because the never would've thought that it was a woman.=====

Essential Questions:
==1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s? With the slave trade and Uncle Tom's cabin I think that it affects everyone with the torture and harassing.==

==4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past? Some long-term effects of slavery are segregation and the harassment that people still use until this day.==