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Name: Thomas Wilson : I am a slave that lives in the deep South. I am 14 years old and have recieved special treatment from the masters of the house. I recieve special treatment because I have been a slave since a baby. The master showed favor on me because he said I looked like a loyal, strong, and trusting young baby slave. I am now 5'11'' and weigh 162 pounds.=====

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Entry Number 1:
= Denmark Vesey: = He helped me get away from my soon to be abusive owner. After we took all of my masters guns and knives while he slept and the ran off into the night. I knew him because he was a close friend to my father who was a free slave that became a black smith that made weapons to held with our revolt. I first went up North to seek shelter from the quakers that later helped us prepare for the up coming revolt. They were 9,000 strong and ready to fight for their freedom.

Then in 1850 Veseyo won his freedom on a lottery and purchased his freedom. Demark bought a property helped other freed slaves. He was my prosperous man theat helped with our revolt effort.

Entry Number 2:
=** Compromise of 1850: **= On January 29, 1850, the 70-year-old Clay presented a compromise. For eight months members of Congress, led by Clay, Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts, and John C. Calhoun, senator from South Carolina, debated the compromise. With the help of Stephen Douglas, a young Democrat from Illinois, a series of bills that would make up the compromise were ushered through Congress. Most for this occured in Texas.

The compromise required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. This also denied a slave to a jury trial. Commisioners would be paid five dollars if an alleged fugitive was released, and ten dollars if the were sent away with the claimant. California territory had grew tremendously with the gold rush of 1849 and recenty potitioned congress to enter Union as a freed state.

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= Fugitive Slave Law : = The fugitive slave laws were apart of the Compromise of 1850. Then the antislavery advocates gained amissions to California as a free state. This then helped the Under Ground Railroad the held three-thousand helping homes and other stations that helped escaping slaves. They used this for time after to get others that escaped to freedom and against the whites of their times. People who didn't return runaway slaves were forced to pay for the slaves according how much the master thought he was worth.For slaves attempting to their lives in the North, the new laws were a disaster. Many felt their homes and flead to Canada. An estimated 20,000 black slalves moved to the neighboring countries.