Mackayle+Miller

=Name: WELL IM ABCDE DANDY AND IM A ABOLITIONIST OF THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD THOSE YEARS PRIOR TO THE OUTBREAL OF THE CIVIL WAR. I TRULY THINK SLAVERY ISTHE WRONGE THING TO DO. SHOULD NO HUMAN BEING BE SLAVED TO DO ANOTHER MANS WORK. I FEELTHAT IF GOD GAVE YOU ALL OF YOUR LIMBS AND YOU KNOW HOW TO WALK YOU SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO DO ALL THING BY ONES SELF. I ABCDE DANDY IS A ABOLITIONIST. =

=A page from the journal of= = = ==Entry Number 1: "WHEN I MEET ANGELINA GRIMKE I FOUND OUT"- SHE WAS AN ABOLITIONIST THROUGH THE ANTEBELLUM PERIOD. SHE WAS THE SISTER OF A WELL KNOW ABOLITIONIST SARAH GRIMKE. WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A SLAVE HOLDER. SHE WAS BORN IN CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 20, 1805. == == AFTER MOVING TO PHILADELPHIA IN 1819 SHE JOINED THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. WHERE THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE FIRST WOMEN TO LECTURE FOR THE ANTI- SLAVERY SOCIETY. SHE ALSO WROTE A LETTER AGAISNT SLAVERY THAT WAS PUBLISHES BY WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, IN THE LIBERATOR NEWSPAPER. SHE FOLLOWED THIS WITH THE PAMPHLET, AN APPEAL TO THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. == == Entry Number 2: "ABOUT A MAN BY THE NAME OF NAT TURNER" HE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 2, 1800 OF SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY VIRGINIA. IN AUGUST 21 TURNER AND SIX MET IN THE WOODS AT 2:00 THAT MORNING THEY WENT TO THE TRAVIS HOUSEHOLD KILLING THE ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD. THEY COUNTINUED ON. HE GAINED FOURTY TO FIFTY NEWSON HORSES. == == W HEN WORD GOT AROUND THEY WERE CAPTURED AND KILLED EXCEPT FOR TURNER. HE WAS LATER CAPTURED. ON OCTOBER 30 WAS TRIED IN THE SOUTHAMPON COUNTY COURT AND SENTENCED TO EXECUTION HANGED AND SKINNED ON NOVEMBE 11. == PICTURE OF NAT TURNER

==Entry Number 3: "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD" THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WAS A VAST NETWORK. IT WAS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO HELPED FUGITIVE SLAVES ESCAPE TO THE NORTH AND TO CANADA. IT WAS RAN BY ANY SINGLE ORGANIZATIONOR PERSON. IT CONSISTED OF MANY WHITES BUT PREOMINETLY BLACK PEOPLE. THEY KNEW ONLY OF THE LOCAL EFFORTS TO AID FUGITIVE AND NOT OF THE OVERALL OPERATION. IT MOVED HUNDREDS OF SLAVES NORHTWARD EACH YEAR. == == IT WASNT EASY. THEY HAD TO FIRST ESCAPE THE SLAVE HOLDER FOR MANY IT MEANT RELYING ON HIS OR HER OWN SOURCES. THE CONDUCTOR WOULD WNTER A PLANTATION AND THE GUIDE THE RUNAWAY NORTHWARD. THEY WOULD MOVE AT NIGHT TRAVELED BETWEEN 10 AND 20 MILES WOULD BE SENT TO NEXT STATION TO ALERT ITS STATION.THE SOUTH LOST 100,000 SLAVES BETWEEN 1810 AND 1850. ==

PICTURE OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

1. How does one's understanding of slavery affect his understanding of the people and events of the 1850s and 1860s?
I SAY THAT EVERYONE HAS A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF SLAVERY SOME IN THE 1850 SAY THAT IT WAS THE CORRECT THING TO DO BESIDES THE ABOLITIONIST. BUT TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES IT IS DENIED OF EVERYONES EQUAL RIGHTS. WE BELIEVE OF HANDLING THING OF ONES SELF.

2. Why would slavery ever be condoned in the United States?
TO PRODUE CHEAP LABOR A HELP PROCESS GOODS

3. Was the Civil War the only means to end slavery in the United States?
I AS ABCDE DANDY CIVIL WAR WAS THE TRUE ENDING AND THE FACT THAT SLAVE OWNERS GAVE AWAY THERE SLAVES TO SLOW IT DOWN

4. What are some of the long-term effects of slavery that are linked to the people and events of the past?
I THINK THEY HATED EACH OTHER AS THE SLAVE OWNER AND THE SLAV