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Slavery During The 1800s

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Slavery being a huge part of American history in the 1800s was the main reason for the country being divided into anti and pro slavery beliefs, causing tension to rise between the north and the south. As a result of laws making harder for slaves to escape and earn their freedom many Author Harriet Beecher Stowe, a white abolitionist, who wrote the novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin” showing the struggles and stories of slaves during the 1800s when this book was released. Frederick Douglass, a black educated abolitionist, who gave his famous “Fourth of July” speech imposing his arguments and thoughts of what Independence Day meant to him and slaves. As the practice of slavery grows in the 1800s, the cruel idea of slavery is opposed by these abolitionists
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