https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj Made with a wish on a star en-us 2016-08-15 06:59:48 UTC 2026-01-07 23:27:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 20143350 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118249511 The Eli Whitney's cotton gin was made in 1793, and then it became a very profitable industry. Cotton,  came up  as the product that existed before the war in South’s major commercial crop, eclipsing tobacco, rice, and sugar in economic importance.

]]> 2016-08-15 07:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118249511 20143557 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118249575 Fugitive Slave Act is apparently the law which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states.]]> 2016-08-15 07:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118249575 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250382 2016-08-15 07:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250382 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250385 slaveholders  with illegal weapons are allowed to capture any Slaves that  have escaped and tries to go to the free lands. ]]> 2016-08-15 07:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250385 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250777 2016-08-15 07:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250777 20143350 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250793 a law made it possible for a white person to claim any black person as a fugitive, and placed the burden of proof on the captive. slavers who legally purchased the rights to runaways, captured them, and then resold them at a profit. often taking blacks people at random, banking on their inability to prove their status of a free person. In the North it got so bad that the government would put up posters to warn black people about the kidnappings and to be careful who you talk to.]]> 2016-08-15 07:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250793 20143557 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250905 Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave which was written based on his experiences as a slave. He was free born American African from New York. He was lured south and kidnapped in 1841 and enslaved for more than a decade, enduring horribly violent conditions. Northup was freed in 1853 with help from colleagues and friends.]]> 2016-08-15 07:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250905 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250911 A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. This novel is about anti-slavery]]> 2016-08-15 07:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118250911 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118251013 abolitionists use this to help the slaves to escape to freedom in the northern states or canada before the civil war occurred. ]]> 2016-08-15 07:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118251013 20143557 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118251295 Harriet Tubman was also an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American civil war. She escaped from slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. ]]> 2016-08-15 07:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118251295 20143350 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118251585 U.S. Constitution, says that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their rights.” The campaign to end slavery itself in the United States was long and bitter. The ending of slavery in 1865 did not improve the lot of most Black Americans and whites developed new forms of discrimination ]]> 2016-08-15 07:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118251585 20143557 https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118252377 Some other countries including US tried to make a law to ban the slave trade. Lots of abolitionist worked hardly to make the slave trade illegal.]]> 2016-08-15 07:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20143557/ih3yim4weunj/wish/118252377