For Those Who Want to Know More
on 'Black Month'!
The first slaves in America were black Africans who arrived in the 1600s. European settlers set them to work on farms, in mines, or in the home. Late in the 17th century some religious groups started arguing that slavery was wrong and should be abolished. many Americans pressed the government to abolish slavery. it was a long fight,, but by 1804 slavery had been abolished in many Northern states.In 1808 it became illegal to import slaves to the United States, though slaves' children remained slaves.
In 1833 the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded. Still, the situation in the South did not change. As America expanded westward in the 19th century, settlers in new states could choose whether or not to allow slavery. On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It promised that any slave would be 'forever free'.
The Civil War ended in a victory for the North in April 1865. later that year the 13th Amendment to the Constitution made slavery illegal in the United States.
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionist_Movement Sojourner Truth was born a slave in about 1797. In 1843 she began travelling the country, speaking out against slavery. She died in 1883.
Sojourner Truth (
/soʊˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During theCivil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, Truth tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
/soʊˈdʒɜrnər ˈtruːθ/; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man. Her best-known extemporaneous speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. During theCivil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, Truth tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
Sojourner Truth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth
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