Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Mother of 6 children
1852: wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Determined to make North realize the evil of slavery and its inhumanity like splitting up families

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Dred Scott

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Supreme Court’s decision invalidated the Missouri compromise of 1820

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Had such a great impact. Powerful political force. Made slavery seem as evil as it really was
It helped start the civil war

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Hinton R. Helper

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A non aristocratic white from North Carolina. Hated both slavery and blacks who said the non slaveholding whites were the ones who suffered the most of slavery

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The Impending Crisis of the South

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1857: written by Helper. Didn’t find a publisher in the south, published in the north.
Addressed poorer whites
Slaveowners feared that non slaveholding might abandon them
Was banned from south b/c of its “dirty allusions”

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New England Emigrant Aid Company

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A famous antislavery organization that sent 2,000 people to troubled area (Kansas) to turn against south and to also make a profit

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“Beecher’s Bibles”

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Carried by the NEEAC. New deadly breech-loading Sharps rifles. Named after Reverend Henry Ward Beecher (Harriet’s brother) who helped raise money for them