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Abolitionists and slave resistance : breaking the chains of slavery

text Abolitionists and slave resistance : breaking the chains of slavery

Summary

Slaves rebelled and sometimes ran away from their plantations. Abolitionists battled to win victories in Congress to help free the slaves but the actions of both slaves and abolitionists helped lead to Civil War.

Contents
Events leading to abolition -- Slavery and the Revolutionary War -- The anti-slavery movement gathers force -- Abolitionists organize -- The Amistad and the new decade -- The rebels and the runaways -- Escape from slavery and fugitive slave laws -... Read more
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Description
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Enslow Publishers 2004

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Woodmere (Main Branch) J 326.8 EDW in Juvenile Nonfiction Available

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