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Revolt and the Underground Railroad

Revolt and the Underground Railroad. Slave Revolts. Nat Turner August 21 st 1831 Along with 6 others, they killed his master and their entire family. On August 23 rd , 60 others will kill 57 white men, women and children. Many slaves will be killed in response.

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Revolt and the Underground Railroad

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  1. Revolt and the Underground Railroad

  2. Slave Revolts • Nat Turner • August 21st 1831 • Along with 6 others, they killed his master and their entire family. • On August 23rd, 60 others will kill 57 white men, women and children. • Many slaves will be killed in response. • Turner will be caught and hung on August 30th.

  3. John Brown • Radical abolitionist, believed in freeing slaves via warfare. • Fought in the attack of Lawrence, Kansas. • Killed 5 settlers in a Kansas pro-slavery town. • He will lead a group of 22 to raid an arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. • Arm slaves for a future revolt. • He will be captured and hung.

  4. . . . 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."

  5. "No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature. . . .“ -Henry David Thoreau

  6. The Underground Railroad Freedomcenter.org

  7. Underground Railroad • During the 1800s, estimates suggest that more than 100,000 enslaved people sought freedom through the Underground Railroad. • The Underground Railroad is the symbolic term given to the routes enslaved Black Americans took to gain their freedom as they traveled, often as far as Canada and Mexico. • Free Blacks, Whites, Native Americans and other slaves acted as conductors by aiding fugitive slaves to their freedom. This 19th century freedom movement challenged the way Americans viewed slavery and freedom.

  8. Underground Railroad • Secret network of safe houses. • Escaped slaves could stop at stations. • Private homes • Black churches • Receive shelter and food. • Lantern on a hitching post = safe house • Slaves hid in flat bottom carts and hidden rooms.

  9. Harriet Tubman- “Moses” • Made over 19 trips to the south • “Conductor” • Helped over 300 slaves • Never lost a single slave • Rescued her friends and family • 70 year old parents • $40,000 bounty on her head. • Never caught, she died in 1913 a free woman

  10. "Excepting John Brown -- of sacred memory -- I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than [Harriet Tubman]."

  11. "one of the bravest persons on this continent."

  12. ESCAPEROUTES

  13. Underground Railroad in Nebraska? • The Underground Railroad’s western route out of Missouri, passed through Kansas, Nebraska, into Illinois. • Mayhew Cabin- Nebraska City • Built in 1855, home of the Mayhews • Slaves were freed via Kansas • Barbara’s Mayhew’s brother brought them.

  14. Slavery in Ne? • Slavery in Nebraska Slavery was an explosive issue when Nebraska Territory was created. There was not the physical and violent struggle in Nebraska as there was in Kansas from 1854-1861, but it was “verbally bloody.” Slavery was not as fiery an issue in Nebraska as it was in Kansas; however slavery was not officially outlawed. Many politicians felt that there was no need for a law because it did not exist in Nebraska while others felt it minor enough to leave it alone. • The fact is slavery did exist in Nebraska. In the 1855 Territorial Census, 6 slaves were listed in Otoe County owned by residents of Nebraska City. Stephen F. Nuckolls had 5 slaves and Charles A. Goshen owned 1. Meanwhile the Kansas Territorial Census of that same year showed 192 slaves. • The 1860 Federal Census showed that 15 slaves were in Nebraska Territory. 10 of those were listed in Otoe County, where Nebraska City was (and is) located. The other 5 slaves were listed in Kearney County where a few military officers owned them at Fort Kearny. The owners of slaves in Nebraska City were Alexander Majors with 6, Charles Holly with 2, and Robert Kirkham with 2. The only known slave auction in Nebraska took place at Nebraska City in December 1860. Judge Charles Holly’s 2 slaves, known as Hercules and Martha, were auctioned off. An interesting point is by 1860 there were only 2 slaves listed in Kansas Territory compared to the 15 in Nebraska.     

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