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  1. Abolitionists Free Suspected Runaway Slave
    date October 4, 1851map ONONDAGA, New Yorktags Abolitionism, Abolitionist violence, Violence

    On Wednesday October 4, 1851, Syracuse city police, led by Deputy U.S. Marshall Allen, arrested an African American man by the name of Jerry McHenry.  John M. Reynolds of Marion County, Indiana, claimed McHenry to be his slave, and as a result, McHenry was taken into custody as a runaway slave and set for trial.  However, Reynolds would soon be surprised by an unexpected turn of events that neither...

  2. Sumner-Brooks Affair
    date May 22, 1856map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Violence, Brooks, Sumner, Abolitionism, Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner sat as his desk in the nearly empty Chamber of the United States Senate on May 22, 1856. He had recently given a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas” on abolishing slavery in the United States. The speech described atrocities occurring in Kansas at the time. There pro-slavery border ruffians from Missouri crossed into Kansas and attacked anti-slavery settlers....

  3. Bleeding Congress
    date May 19, 1856 to May 22, 1856map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Abolitionism, Bleeding Kansas, Brooks-Sumner Fight, Violence

        Tensions on Capitol Hill had been rising for years as Southern and Northern politicians continued their debates with one another over the slavery issue. By the 1850s there was a full out war of words in both chambers of Congress as each side was becoming increasingly uncompromising in their cause. These tensions had been creeping across the country at an extremely fast rate throughout the nineteenth...

  4. Abolitionists Urged to Reunite Under Common Goal
    date February 19, 1841map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Gerrit Smith, Abolitionism, Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison, AASS, American Anti-Slavery Soc

    On February 19, 1841, abolitionist Gerrit Smith urged his fellow activists to reunite in their common cause after having split into two factions. He offered a “proposition for peace amongst ourselves.” He encouraged abolitionists of every persuasion to tolerate their differences so that they can employ “against their common foe the time and ammunition, which, for the last two years, they have...