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	Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In Rome, slaves were organised as a social class, and some authors found in their condition the earliest concept of proletariat, given that the only property they were allowed to own was the gift of reproduction.
		Slave catching and slave trade was one of the main occupations of the Vikings.
		Slavery under European rule began with importation of white European slaves (or indentured servants), was followed by the enslavement of local aborigines in the Caribbean, and eventually was primarily replaced with Africans imported through a large slave trade as the native populations declined through disease.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Slavery (8450 words)

	Learn more about John Brown (abolitionist) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		John Brown (May 9, 1800 - December 2, 1859) was an extremist abolitionist who led the raid on Harpers Ferry and whose defeat, trial, and execution helped set the stage for the American Civil War.
		John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, on May 9, 1800.
		John Brown was buried on the John Brown Farm in North Elba, New York (south of Lake Placid).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /j/jo/john_brown__abolitionist_.html (1260 words)

	John Brown (fugitive slave) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		After several attempts Brown finally managed to escape and moved round the country, eventually sailing to England in 1850 where he worked as a carpenter in London.
		Brown married a local woman and remained in London until his death.
		John Brown (fugitive slave), Slaves, People from Virginia, 1810 births and 1876 deaths.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/John_Brown_%28fugitive_slave%29 (201 words)

	Slavery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Historically, slaves were often those humans of a different ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex or race than the dominant or aspirationally dominant group; typically taken prisoner as a result of warfare, capture meant death or slavery if no one paid ransom.
		Officially, Islam dislikes the idea of slavery and had set rules for dealing with slaves, such as mandated liberation on conversion to Islam, an insistence that slaves be clothed and fed in the same manner as is their master, and that they not be forced into marriage or concubinage, among other prohibitons.
		The importation of slaves into the United States was banned on January 1, 1808; but not the internal slave trade, and the involvement in the international slave trade or the outfitting of ships for that trade by U.S. citizens.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Slavery.htm (3679 words)

	John Brown (fugitive slave) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		John Brown 'For the abolitionist, redirect to John Brown
		'John Brown' [1810]-[1876] also known by his slave name of 'Fed',was born into [slavery]in [Virginia] and was moved at age ten to [North Carolina] where he was separated from his mother.
		Brown's body was exhumed by for a pro slavery act, and has never been seen again.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Brown_%28fugitive_slave%29 (234 words)

	African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy (Part 2)
		This is a portrait of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial in Boston under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 incited riots and protests by white and fl abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 1854.
		Designed to portray and compare the areas of free and slave states, it also includes tables of statistics for each of the states from the 1850 census, the results of the 1852 presidential election, congressional representation by state, and the number of slaves held by owners.
		Although the Southern states were known collectively as the "slave states" by the end of the Antebellum Period, this map provides statistical evidence to demonstrate that slaves were not evenly distributed throughout each state or the region as a whole.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html (1137 words)

	William Wells Brown, 1815-1884. Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Brown briefly thanked the parties for their spontaneous free will offering, accompanied as it was by a generous expression of sympathy for his afflicted brethren and sisters in bondage.
		Brown subsequently made, through the columns of the Times, a proposition for the emigration of American fugitive slaves, under fair and honourable terms, from Canada to the West Indies, where there is a great lack of that labour which they are so capable of undertaking.
		The slave is entirely subject to the will of his master, who may correct and chastise him, though not with unusual rigour, or so as to maim and mutilate him, or expose him to the danger of loss of life, or to cause his death.
	www.ibiblio.org /docsouth/southlit/brown/brown.html (17429 words)

	African American Resources at the CHS African American Resources at the CHS
		Convinced that slavery was evil he emancipated his slaves and urges others to do the same; but asks: "What is a Christian slaveholder to do, whose State laws forbid the emancipation of his slaves?" Suggests voluntary payment of wages to slaves, and active agitation for repeal of laws forbidding emancipation.
		Contains the statement that the slaves in the town were considered free with the adoption of the state constitution and a related anecdote about a fifteen-year- old slave named Nancy who stayed with her former owners for the remainder of her long life.
		Condemns slave trade on religious and economic grounds; cites statistics from the 1790 census relating to proportions of slaves to free populations in the states, value of trade, etc.
	www.chs.org /afamcoll/printed.htm (12476 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Slavery [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hadrian, one of the most humane of the Roman Emperors, wilfully destroyed the eye of one of his slaves with a stylus.
		Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 was a symbolic gesture that proclaimed freedom for slaves within the Confederacy but not those in the strategically important border states of Tennessee, Maryland or Deleware.
		The "Abolition of the Slave Trade Act" was passed by Parliament on March 25 1807.
	encyclozine.com /Slavery (8168 words)

	Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But John and his wife prospered, he in his vocation, she at her farm; and as he had managed to add trade to navigation, there seemed to be a prospect of his amassing wealth in the course of a few years.
		John Glasgow, having to go backwards and forwards on errands, saw and at length selected a young, bright, coloured girl named Nancy, and they were married, in the way that slaves are; that is, nominally.
		As may be imagined, the slaves are brought from all parts, are of all sorts, sizes, and ages, and arrive in various states of fatigue and condition; but they soon improve in their looks, as they are regularly fed, and have plenty to eat.
	www.ibiblio.org /docsouth/neh/jbrown/jbrown.xml (22171 words)

	THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850
		LX.--An Act to amend, and supplementary to the Act entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice, and Persons escaping from the Service of their Masters," approved February twelfth, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
		shall from time to time enlarge the number of the commissioners, with a view to afford reasonable facilities to reclaim fugitives from labor, and to the prompt discharge of the duties imposed by this act.
		And to this end, the officer aforesaid is hereby authorized and required to employ so many persons as he may deem necessary to overcome such force, and to retain them in his service so long as circumstances may require.
	afgen.com /fugitive_slave_act.html (191 words)

	Lesson Plans - John Brown and the Underground Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This lesson asks students to analyze John Brown's attitudes and actions against slavery and the differences between his views and those of other people who were active in the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement.
		Ask students to investigate John Brown's role in the Underground Railroad, his attitudes toward violence and nonviolence, and the ways he differed from other abolitionists.
		Have them choose one of the former slaves they've read about and pretend that this escaping slave has come into their town.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/17/g912/undergroundrail.html (781 words)

	Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events:1850-1859
		Congress passes the Land Act of 1851, an attempt to sort out competing land claims by Mexican Americans, called Californios, who were longtime settlers in California, and the immigrants, often from other areas of the United States, who contested their claims.
		Abolitionists seek to have her tried in Ohio so as to prevent her return to slavery, but with the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Law she is returned to Kentucky.
		John Brown leads an armed group of 21 to seize the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, is captured, and is executed.
	www.gonzaga.edu /faculty/campbell/enl311/1850.htm (1074 words)

	Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" 5 July 1852
		From the slave prison to the ship, they are usually driven in the darkness of night; for since the antislavery agitation, a certain caution is observed.
		In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenceless, and in diabolical intent, this Fugitive Slave Law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation.
		One is struck with the difference between the attitude of the American church towards the anti-slavery movement, and that occupied by the churches in England towards a similar movement in that country.
	afgen.com /douglas.html (8867 words)

	The Abolitionist
		These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms
		The lunch crowd was heedless of the runaway slave tunnels beneath the Unionville Tavern, where Debra Laveck poked around, trying to rediscover an old Underground Railroad crawlway to a cemetery across the road.
		Born in 1797, and sold three times by the time she was 13 (and beaten many more times), a tall young slave girl named Isabella grew in her determination to fight the evils of slavery and speak for human rights.
	www.afgen.com /slave1.html (888 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: The Fugitive Slave Act, September 18, 1850.
		The Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture.
		Along with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the ratification of Kansas' admission for free statehood, this legislation is part of the chain of events which culminated in the American Civil War.
		Section 3: And be it further enacted, That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall from time to time enlarge the number of the commissioners, with a view to afford reasonable facilities to reclaim fugitives from labor, and to the prompt discharge of the duties imposed by this act.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1850fugitive.html (253 words)

	Digital Library of Georgia
		Slave life in Georgia : a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England / edited by L.A. Chamerovzow.
		It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
		Transcribed from: Slave life in Georgia : a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England / edited by L.A. Chamerovzow, Secretary of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
	dlg.galileo.usg.edu /meta/html/docsouth/nasn/meta_docsouth_nasn_jbrown.html (250 words)

	Essays Examining Xenophobia by William W. Berry of Buffalo, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Creek, all hanging that day in John Brown's barn, he cut to the quick.
		Brown, a shepherd and breeder and land surveyor had moved to Timbucto to assist the fl
		Douglass speech in praise of John Brown, he had forgotten to shave.
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	American Slave Narratives
		Jo and Jerry were de table boys, and dey ne'ber touched nothin' wid dere hans', dey used de waiter to pass things wid.
		It sho' was hard for us older uns to keep de little cullered chillun out ob de dinin' room whar ol marster ate, cause when dey would slip in and stan' by his cheer, when he finished eatin' he would fix a plate and gib dem and dey would set on de hearth and eat.
		But honey chile, all white folks warn 't good to dere slaves, cause I'se seen pore niggers almos' tore up by dogs, and whipped unmercifully, when dey did'nt do lack de white folks say.
	www.afgen.com /slave_narrative1.html (797 words)

	John Brown, fl. 1854 and Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, edited by Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, ...
		1854 and Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, edited by Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England.
		Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England.
		Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, provided the text for the electronic publication of this title.
	docsouth.unc.edu /neh/jbrown/menu.html (151 words)

	July 11, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Morsell's performance is sponsored by John Brown Lives!, Northern Adirondack Planned Parenthood, Adirondack Architectural Heritage, and AuSable Valley Grange.
		Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (www.phmc.state.pa.us) and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (www.cr.nps.gov/ugrr/) Will host an Underground Railroad Gathering with The Pennsylvania Federation of Museums & Historical Organizations, The Crawford County Historical Society, the John Brown Heritage Association, and the Crawford County Convention & Visitors Bureau.
		The Gathering is an informal meeting of individuals and organizations interested in promoting, protecting and preserving the history of the Underground Railroad.
	www.afrolumens.org /ugrr/030711.html (373 words)

	The Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)
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	www.quaboag.k12.ma.us /depts/virtual/civwar.html (263 words)

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