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*1837, when a pro-slavery mob killed the abolitionist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Parish_Lovejoy Elijah P. Lovejoy], a Presbyterian minister, journalist and newspaper editor in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his press and abolitionist materials - while, on the other hand, the abolitionist movement became practical in helping fugitive slaves reach freedom by means of a network of assistance and safe houses from the South to Canada known as the Underground Railroad | *1837, when a pro-slavery mob killed the abolitionist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elijah_Parish_Lovejoy Elijah P. Lovejoy], a Presbyterian minister, journalist and newspaper editor in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on his warehouse to destroy his press and abolitionist materials - while, on the other hand, the abolitionist movement became practical in helping fugitive slaves reach freedom by means of a network of assistance and safe houses from the South to Canada known as the Underground Railroad | ||
*1859, when the militant abolitionist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist) John Brown], who had already been leading a small antislavery guerilla war in thze Kansas territory and in Missouri in 1855, led a raid on a federal arms depot at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the intent to start an armed slave revolt - his attempt being thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee (within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured, and Brown himself was hanged later that year (although initially shocked by Brown's exploits, many Northerners began to speak favorably of the militant abolitionist. "He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. . . .," said Henry David Thoreau in an address to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts. "No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature. . . ."; the song "John Brown's body lies ..." became very popular with the troops of the Union during the Civil War, and is still known under the name "Battle Hymn of the Republic") | *1859, when the militant abolitionist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist) John Brown], who had already been leading a small antislavery guerilla war in thze Kansas territory and in Missouri in 1855, led a raid on a federal arms depot at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, with the intent to start an armed slave revolt - his attempt being thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee (within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured, and Brown himself was hanged later that year (although initially shocked by Brown's exploits, many Northerners began to speak favorably of the militant abolitionist. "He did not recognize unjust human laws, but resisted them as he was bid. . . .," said Henry David Thoreau in an address to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts. "No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature. . . ."; the song "John Brown's body lies ..." became very popular with the troops of the Union during the Civil War, and is still known under the name "Battle Hymn of the Republic") | ||
*1862, when the African Slave Trade Treaty Act between the U.S. and Britain suppressed the slave trade | |||
*1863, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which declared slaves in Confederate-controlled areas to be freed, when state action freed most slaves in "border states", and when a separate law freed the slaves in Washington, D.C. | |||
*1865, when the U.S. abolished slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, affecting about 40,000 remaining slaves | |||
*1866, when the so-called Indian territory, later known as the state of Oklahoma, abolished slavery | |||
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