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Britney Tereza, Ligia Veliciu,

Justyna Chmey, Silvana Qaryo

Date 06.22.1850

Uncle Toms Cabin

By: Britney Tereza

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an

abolitionist, raised by a devoutly religious
family from Connecticut. At a young age she
was taught that slavery was an evil and unnatural acts and continued to carry
that on into her book. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an anti-slavery novel. The book
was written in Cleveland, Ohio, 1852. She described in detail the horrific events
that the slaves had to endure in the South. Stowe exaggerated the events that
happened to draw the North in for support and that made the South very angry.
The North was not aware of the events that were going on in the South. So, the
North began to sympathize with the slaves. The novel was a big hit in the
North and convinced Northerners to stay away from these inhuman acts. While
in the South, the book ignited a big protest and people started to rebel. The
Southerners knew that these acts were only happening in some scenarios with
slaves, and it angered them because they did not believe that what they were
doing was as immortal.
Uncle Toms Cabin created a lot of controversy between the North and
the South. I believe that in order for there to have been some sort of change in
slavery this book had to be made to stir up things. If Stowe did not write the
book then we would have been dealing with slavery for hundreds of years to
come. The Civil War created sectionalism, and the main reason for fighting was
over slavery. So the book directly ties in with the fight between the North and
the South.

Hey there, its Britney!

Send me a letter and tell me
what you think of Stowes
novel.

See page 3 for more

information on the Supreme
Court and the Drew Scott
Controversy.

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South, Get out of Kansas!

By: Justyna

Chmura

OUTRAGE.
Fellow Citizens,

The violence has erupted in Kansas!

This Evening,

Close the mouth of slavery.

At 6 oclock, On May 21, 1856, a group of pro-slavery men hiked

up to Lawrence, Kansas. They scorched the Free State Hotel, destroyed
printing presses, and looted homes and stores. In retaliation, the
abolitionist, John Brown, led a group of his followers to the
Pottawatomie Creek and launched a bloody attack against the
pro-slavery men killing five people. This began a violent retaliation
against Brown and his followers. This violent attack against slavery
gave Kansas the name: "Bleeding Kansas". Kansas was being disputed
for free or slave soil by popular sovereignty. In 1857, there were enough
free-soilers to overrule the slave-soilers. So, North and South were
feuding, and hatred was rising between them even more. The
disagreements eventually led to 55 killings in Kansas between
pro-slavery and antislavery forces. This event was important because it
was arguably the first violence leading to the Civil War.

The Union Forever!

Union is Strength.
Free State convention:
We Must Stand Up For the
All Who Are in Favorable to Union
The significance of "Bleeding Kansas" was that the crisis pushed the North and South
Lives Of All Individuals!
apart and had a great deal to do with causing the Civil War. Bleeding Kansas conflict was

triggered when the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 gave Kansas the right to decide on if it
will be a pro-slavery or anti-slavery state. After the act passed, forces for and against

slavery poured into Kansas and started fighting each other with atrocities on both sides.
If
your
willing to stand up, and With so much tension already built up due to slavery, this conflict was yet another add on
fight
for the cause visit Ms. Anne, to the hatred that already existed with the North and South. Of course, with the Civil War
occurring, "Bleeding Kansas" can certainly be credited, amongst many other factors, as
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what led up to the beginning of the war. I think the event was awful because lives were

lost, but I believe people who are so divided and passionate on a matter. They become

irrational like John Brown or Malcolm X and resort to violence to make their statement.
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Scott and the Supreme Court

By Ligia Veliciu

The actions of the Supreme Court has shocked the North and delighted the
South. Drew Scott is an African American slave owned by Dr. John Emerson, a
surgeon that worked with the US Army. He brought Scott to the North while he
was working. Emerson died while he was up North with Scott and now all of
Emersons property was given to his wife, Eliza Irene Sanford. Scott asked
Sanford to buy his freedom, but she denied. He filed a lawsuit against her in
1854 to sue her because he was living in a free state at the time, therefore giving
him freedom and rights. The supreme court ruled that because he was property,
not a citizen, he had no rights to freedom. One of the judges, Chief Justice Roger
Taney, said that under the Fifth Amendment, slavery could not be banned
because slaves were property, not citizens. In the end, the Supreme court ruled
against him and declared that African American slaves had no right to freedom
because he was not a citizen. This impacted the Civil War because it created
huge controversy of how the free states could remain free and how slave owners
could bring, buy, and sell slaves in free states.

Supreme Court Ruling on the

Scott vs. Sanford Case angers
the North.

Read the second most popular

book on the market, Uncle
Toms Cabin
,
by Harriet
Beecher Stowe.

Slave Owners Crossing Lines

I
am extremely horrified with the decision of the Supreme Court ruled against

Scott. He is a human and he was living in the free states during his case. It
shouldnt matter if his lawsuit started while he was in Missouri. Its scarey how
the southern states are gaining control of the the liberties in the free states. This
could have easily been avoided if the Supreme Court had just given the man and
his family rights. The South gained the advantage here because not only was the
Supreme Court in their favor, but slave owners are also starting to gain liberties
in the free states, therefore slaves losing their liberties in the North. I dare not
imagine how this controversy will end because I know it will be a bloody one.

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Raid on Harper's Ferry - Harper's Weekly illustration

of U.S. Marines attacking John Brown's "Fort"

John Brown's Raids

By Silvana Qaryo

John Brown, was a deeply religious man. Who believed that slavery was an
unjustifiable state of war conducted by one group of people against another. For him
the destruction of slavery required revolutionary force and violence as well as the
shedding of blood. John Brown was a man of action, on October 16, 1859, he led 21
men on a raid of federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to arm
slaves with the weapons he and his men seized from the arsenal. However, militiamen
and marines that were led by Robert E. Lee captured and killed most of Browns men.
On December 2, 1859, he was found guilty of treason against the commonwealth of
Virginia and was hanged. For Southerners, John Browns raid was an act of
terrorism committed by Northern abolitionist, so they passed an emergency measures
to arm and train volunteer militias to prepare for future conflict with Northerns.
What John Brown did was a great thing, he wanted to free slaves from their
lords, and to do that he had to sacrifice his own life. it cant be avoided because he
was a man of action and wanted to do what he believed was right.

. . . I believe to have interfered as I

have done, . . . in behalf of His
despised poor, was not wrong, but
right. Now, if it be deemed necessary
that I should forfeit my life for the
furtherance of the ends of justice, and
mingle my blood further with the
blood of my children, and with the
blood of millions in this slave country
whose rights are disregarded by
wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments,
I submit: so let it be done."

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