Slavery+and+Abolition



Click on the photo above to learn about the history of slavery in the United States:

[|The Missouri Compromise 1820]

[|The founding of Liberia] See the map of Liberia below. Notice the name of the capital of this West African country!

[|The Compromise of 1850] [|The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854]

Tensions rise over the Kansas Nebraska Act. See below.

Cartoon showing the famous attack of Senator Preston Brooks on Charles Sumner in the Senate chamber



To see the actual Mason-Dixon line, click [|here]

Map of the US 1854 Pro-slavery vs. Anti-slavery