President Abraham Lincoln said in 1858, "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races." President Lincoln is widely believed to be the fabled liberator of the slaves. However, Lincoln showed time a...

HARRIET TUBMANHarriet Tubman was an escaped slave. She helped so many of her black people that she became known as "Moses of Her People." During the civil war she served the union army as a nurse, spy, cook, and scout. She was also conductor on the Underground Railroad. She was a very heroic woman.H...

·Douglas hoped that northerners opposing his bill would quiet down after the bill was settled, but they became more furious·Antislavery critics wanted to prevent slavery from gaining a foothold in Kansasa Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was found to help emigrants to settle down in Kansas a hun...