Slavery And The Underground Railroad - 853 Words

In the 1800s Black and whites worked to undermine slavery. People tried to undermine slavery by taking slaves the north using the underground railroad. Another way they helped slavery was to make newspapers and make speeches to the people about slaves. People also tried to write bills and pass laws to undermine slavery. Black and white people in the U.S. worked to undermine slavery by building the underground Railroad to help people escape from slavery to the North and to Canada. The underground Railroad was not run by one individual, it consisted of many individuals. Many whites and blacks tried to move over hundreds of slaves northward each year. An organized system to assist runaway slaves seemed to have begun towards the end of the†¦show more content†¦They sometimes travel on boats but mostly by train. The Underground Railroad had some amazing people who participated in freeing slaves. Harriet Tubman, who made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more than 3,000 slaves. These kinds of people helped abolish slavery. For the slaves who were fleeting to the north, the north was a land of freedom. People tried to end slavery by writing newspapers and making speeches around America. Although many New Englanders had grown wealthy in the slave trade before the importation of slaves was outlawed, that area of the country became the hotbed of abolitionist sentiment. Abolitionist newspapers and pamphlets were big into existence. These were numerous enough by 1820 that South Carolina instituted penalties for anyone bringing written anti-slavery material into the state. David Walker, a freeman of color originally from the South, published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in Boston, Massachusetts. It was a new benchmark, pushing abolitionists toward extreme militancy. He called for slaves to rise up against their masters and to defend themselves: â€Å"It is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.† During the three decades that preceded the Civil War,