Timeline by Kaitlynn Young

Dred Scott case (1857)

kaitlynnyou29 — 2024-09-11 17:10:52 UTC

The Dred Scott case was first Brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor of St. Louis Old courthouse. The Scoots lost their first trial because of the hearsay evidence but were also granted in 1850s. The second trial Hearst the evidence and decided that Dred Scott and his family should be slaves and turn into various property. Emerson did not want to loose the Scotts so she applied her case against them which was in 1852. The slavery issue was becoming more popular and becoming national wide and the provided court with popltical reasons to make them turn into slaves. Dred scoot was not ready to give up in his fight for freedom for himself and his family.

Uncle Tom's Cabin' Is Published (1851)

kaitlynnyou29 — 2024-09-11 17:23:23 UTC

In 1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe who was grieving the loss of her 18-month old son Samuel. Two years later she wrote to a publisher of a Washington DC based on about slavery. Stowe later explained that losing her child helped her understand what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is ripped away from her. Stowe story published in 41 installments and boosted the papers in its first year, and the vociferous public debate about the book exacerbated the differences between the North and South. Northerners were shocked by the brutal depiction of slavery, which Stowe had synthesized from published autobiographies of slaves and stories she had heard from friends and fugitive Blacks. In turn, “Southerners react noisily to it,” Green explains. “They’re saying, ‘This is terrible. You’re attacking us. You’re all against us.’” When Stowe visited the White House in 1862, President Lincoln asked, “So this is the little lady who made this big war?”.

The Pottawatomie Massacre (1859)

kaitlynnyou29 — 2024-09-11 17:33:48 UTC

One of those who went to Kansas was a radical abolitionist and religious zealot named John Brown who had worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and founded a way to helped slaves escape to Canada, brown moved to Kansas Territory where in May 1856, he was angered by the destruction of a newspaper office and other property in Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery forces. Brown decided retaliation was in order At a spot near a crossing on Potawatomi Creek in Franklin, Kansas, Brown, four of his sons and several others lured five proslavery men out of their houses with a promise that they would not be harmed, and then slashed and stabbed them with a saber and shot them in the head, according to a contemporary account of the attack

John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry (1859)

kaitlynnyou29 — 2024-09-11 21:26:40 UTC

Brown dreamed of carrying out an even bigger attack, one that would ignite a mass uprising of Southern enslaved people. On a night in October 1859, he and a band of 22 men launched a raid on Harpers Ferry, a town in what is now West Virginia, and captured some prominent local citizens and seized the federal arsenal there. His small force soon was counterattacked by local militia, forcing him to seek refuge. The following afternoon, U.S. Marines under the command of then-Col. Robert E. Lee arrived and stormed the arsenal, killing many of Brown’s men and capturing him. Brown was tried and charged with treason, murder and slave insurrection, and sentenced to death. He was hanged in December 1859. While the attack failed to trigger the widespread revolt he envisioned, it drove the North and South even further apart.

The Formation of the Confederacy (1865)

kaitlynnyou29 — 2024-09-11 21:33:16 UTC

The election of the first U.S. president who was a vocal opponent of slavery came as a shock to Southerners. “Now, there is going to be someone in the White House who is not going to do what the South says it wants done, reflexively,” Green explains. “Their feeling is, no matter what Lincoln says about protecting our rights, he’s not going to do that. We don’t trust him. He’s been elected by people who are out to get us.” Instead, a four-year, bloody war devastated much of the South, took the lives of more than 650,000 from both sides, and led to the emancipation of more than 3.9 million enslaved Black Americans, in addition to changing the nation in numerous other ways.