Property

Property

 July 4, 1827 – In New York State, slavery is legally abolished. August 21, 1831 – A local slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner, a black slave, kills fifty-seven white citizens. Turner would be captured on October 30 of the same year, tried, and hanged on November 11 for his part in the uprising. November 7, 1837 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, an abolitionist printer, is killed by a mob of slavery supporters, when he was trying to protect his shop from its third destruction. September 3, 1838 – Frederick Douglass, future abolitionist, boards a train in Maryland to freedom from slavery, with borrowed identification and a sailor’s uniform from a free Black seaman. In the 1830s the Underground Railroad helped thousands of African American slaves escape from the southern American states, north into Canada. But there were men who followed them, employed to bring these slaves back to America. These men were bounty hunters and the slaves were property…