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The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 made the hunting down of escaped slaves, even in free states, fully legal.
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In the spring of 1854, fugitive slave Anthony Burns sat in Boston's city jail as protests for his release turned violent.
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Although fighting for a common cause, abolitionists Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison suffered a major falling out.
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The death of Harriet Beecher Stowe's son allowed her to imagine the pain of an enslaved mother's separation from her child.Â
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George Latimer's imprisonment and subsequent release led Massachusetts to declare that state officials could not take part in the recapture of a fugitive slave.
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In 1841, Frederick Douglass agreed to join William Lloyd Garrison to advocate for the abolitionism of slavery.
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After having escaped to New York, Frederick Douglass and his wife Anna moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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In September of 1838, escaped slave Frederick Douglass and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison met in Nantucket.
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In October 1835, William Lloyd Garrison was attacked by an anti-abolitionist mob in Boston.
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The Anti-Slavery Society's great postal campaign of 1835 flooded the South with abolitionist literature — and created a backlash.
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On a trip to Kentucky in 1833, Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed slavery up close.
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William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of his abolitionist newspaper on January 1, 1831.
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