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Abbreviated Primary Source Set: The Struggle for Abolition

Enactment of Hereditary Slavery Law, Virginia, 1662

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Thomas Paine, “African Slavery in America”, 1775

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Correspondence between Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson, 1791

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U.S. Congress: An Act to Authorize the People of the Missouri Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government (Missouri Compromise), 1820

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The Underground Railroad and Networks to Freedom

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Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845

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Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851

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U.S. Congress, An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas (Kansas-Nebraska Act), 1854

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U.S. Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 US 393, 1856

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John Brown’s Last Speech, 1859

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