Issues of Slavery

One Way (Middle) Passage - was a journey of 500 miles across the Atlantic to America. As many as 200 black men, women, and children were packed below decks, squeezed onto platforms built in tiers spaced so close that sitting upright was impossible. Maroons - were a group of runaway slaves that formed their own communities. Nat Turner - he was convinced that God had selected him to punish white people through “terror and devastation”. Then one …showed first 75 words of 531 total…

…showed last 75 words of 531 total…written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book presented a powerful moral indictment of the law - and of slavery as an institution. Compromise of 1850 - addressed all the major controversies between the two sections. California, he proposed, should be admitted as a free state, which represented the clear wishes of most settlers there. The rest of the Mexican cession would be organized as two territories, New Mexico and Utah, under the doctrine of popular sovereignty.