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1851 -- Resistance to Fugitive Slave Act. In an armed resistance in Christiana, Pennsylvania, three "hunted" blacks kill or wound their pursuers. Each is tried for treason and acquitted.
1851 -- Harpers Ferry Ordinance. The town sergeant will "lodge in the jail each and every colored person, whom he may find upon any of the streets, lanes, or alleys, after ten o'clock at night..."
1852 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin published. Reformer Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel depicting slavery's horrors sells more than 300,000 copies in its first year, galvanizing Northern opinion against slavery.
1852 -- Sojourner Trust. Former slave Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman" Address in Akron, Ohio. |