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28. Abolitionist Sentiment Grows

Garrison and The Liberator, the African American abolitionists, the underground railroad, and the novel that carried the argument into every parlor.

28. Abolitionist Sentiment Grows

Most of the African American characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin are transported to Africa at the end of the novel, causing controver…

28a. William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator

Library of CongressAnti-abolitionist handbills sometimes led to violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. Every movement needs a voice. F…

28b. African-American Abolitionists

> The abolition of slavery was the cause of free African-Americans. Once the colonization effort was defeated, free African-Americans in the North became mor…

28c. The Underground Railroad

National Park ServiceLewis Hayden escaped from slavery through the Underground Railroad, eventually becoming a "conductor" from his Boston home. Any cause need…

28d. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Kim Wells, Domestic GoddessesEliza is forced to flee dogs and slave-catchers in Uncle Tom's Cabin. "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made thi…