How Does Slavery Affect Us Today

Slavery has played an important and crucial role in the development of the United States because key leaders, and many others stood against it, it was a long hard fight, and it's still impacting us today. November 6th, 1860 the sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln was brought into office. This created uproar in Southern states who were anxious Lincoln would abolish slavery. Though he never actually came out and said he was against slavery, southerners thought his actions said it all. The biggest fear was he would gain control of power and slavery would soon be gone. Eventually their fears became too much, their actions showing it all. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina and
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, but escaped at twenty. Throughout his life he had a strong, loud, booming voice that screamed out about the horrors of slavery. He fought endlessly against lynching and Jim Crow. He never stayed silent and was always performing inspirational speeches, putting out books and was involved in a big African American newspaper. When Angelina Grimke was a young girl her and her sister were given two slaves that were around their ages. When Angelina was younger, she never thought anything about her slaves that her family owned, until one day she did. One of her slaves came to her, legs bloody from the whipping he had just endured. From then after, things were much different. Soon after she took a trip to the North, then transitioned into a Quaker state of mind, and then suddenly she took the leap and moved to the North. She was surprised, and not in a good way about all the violent riots in the South. After her eyes were really opened, she went full force into to fighting against slavery becoming a figure to look up to for anti slavery abolitionists everywhere. Soon after she also started to