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Harriet Tubman The country of the free they say, that was not true for the slaves of the 1800's. Harriet Tubman is now still remembered for her courages acts. SHe put her own life at rick in order to save 300 other slaves with her secret underground railroad.

Harriet Tubman was born into a slave family and she was imeditaly forced to work too. Once she was older and the plantation was sold, she had a chance to flee north. And she did. She escaped by using the undergrounf railroad that was a secret of stations used by the abolitionists. Harriet tubman made several trips to free the slaves down south

The cotton gin was a device that was invented 1793 by Eli Whitney, it could easily seperate the cotton from its seeds. Althought it seems like this could not apply to our topic, it can. The slaves had to use these machines day and night at cotton plantations. It was hard work for many of them.

William Lloyd Garrison made a very compeling speech on Dec. 2, 1859 againts slavery. He was convinced that it was not a thing that should be going on, and he said, "If the slaves are not men; if they do not possess human instincts, passions, faculties, and powers; if they are below accountability, and devoid of reason; if for them there is no hope of immortality, no God, no heaven, no hell; if, in short, they are what the slave code declares them to be, rightly "deemed, sold, taken, reputed and adjudged in law to be chattels personal in the hands of their owners and possessors, and their executors, administrators and assigns, to all intents, constructions, and purposes whatsoever"; then, undeniably, I am mad, and can no longer discriminate between a man and a beast. But, in that case, away with the horrible incongruity of giving them oral instruction, of teaching them the catechism, of recognizing them as suitably qualified to be members of Christian churches". This part of the speech seemed the most significant since he made a clear show that slaves were people just like everyone else, and they had a right to be equal.

Slavery Abolition Act. After the 1807 act, slaves were still held, though not sold, within the British Empire. In the 1820s, the abolitionist movement again became active, this time campaigning against the institution of slavery itself. The Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1827. Many of the campaigners were those who had previously campaigned against the slave trade. On 23 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act outlawed slavery in the British Colonies. On 1 August 1834, all slaves in the British Empire were emancipated, but still indentured to their former owners in an apprenticip system which was finally abolished in 1838. £20 million was paid in compensation to plantation owners in the Caribbean.