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The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.

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The 16th president of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth

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An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.

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A confederacy is a political union. The most famous American confederacy consisted of the southern states who fought the northern states in the American Civil War. Any such political union could be called a confederacy.

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A war between citizens of the same country.

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the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

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Dred Scott was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters.

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The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.

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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

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a state of the US in which slavery was illegal.

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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene.

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Nat Turner was an African-American slave who led a two-day rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, beginning August 21, 1831. The rebellion caused the death of approximately 60 white men, women and children. Whites organized militias and called out regular troops to suppress the uprising.

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Oral tradition is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down. This includes historical and cultural traditions, literature and law.

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The overseer was paid to get the most work out of the slaves; therefore, overseers often resorted to whatever means was necessary. Sometimes the slaves would drive the overseer off the plantation in desperation.

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The later development of cotton and sugar cultivation in the Deep South in the early 18th century led to the establishment of large plantations which had hundreds of slaves. The great majority of Southern farmers owned no slaves or owned fewer than five slaves. Slaves were much more expensive than land.

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the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

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restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.

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During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states.

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the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

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The laws were known as slave codes. Although each colony had differing ideas about the rights of slaves, there were some common threads in slave codes across areas where slavery was common. Legally considered property, slaves were not allowed to own property of their own.

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The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law", for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

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any of the southern states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin. (1852) A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree.