The Compromise Of 1850 And Fredrick Douglas
The Compromise of 1850 & Fredrick Douglas
The Compromise of 1850 was primarily about the future of slavery in the new territories and the Union. Out of the Compromise of 1850 came “The Fugitive Slave Law”, which gave owners of escaped slaves the power and the resources to procure their escaped slaves. It constituted one of its provisions was controversial federal laws that intended to pacify the slaveholding south and enraged the Northern abolitionist and ultimately provoked the Civil War.
The compromise was necessitated by the United States annexation of territory stretching from Texas to California after the Mexican American War (1846-1848). This national expansion confirmed “The Manifest Destiny”, ideology that claimed that God intended …show more content…
Instead the law appointed commissioners to oversee the trials, who were compensated $5 for freeing a fugitive but $10 for returning on to the south. Northerners were outraged over the law’s ruling that they were required to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves. Northern free blacks were particularly alarmed that the law did not contain allowances for those blacks who were not escaped slaves; blacks who lived their whole lives as free could be captured and sent into southern states as slaves who had never experienced slavery a day in their lives. Many slaves and free blacks fled to Canada because Canada would not …show more content…
He was taught to read by the wife of one of his masters; although she had been told that it was illegal and unsafe to teach a slave to read- and taught himself to write in the shipyards of Baltimore. Douglas began a life devoted to the cause of freedom, for women as well as blacks. In the process, he became one of the most famous men in America, black or white. A speaker of extraordinary power, Douglas was first employed by William Lloyd Garrison’s Anti Slavery Society. During the Civil War, he became an advisor to Lincoln, recruiting black soldiers for the Union cause and lobbying for their equal pay, which was reluctantly granted. After the war he accepted a number of government appointments, and was later made ambassador to Haiti. Douglas also started his own newspaper and spoke vividly out about slavery. In 1853 Douglas authored The Heroic Slave, a fictionalized account of the life of Madison Washington, a slave who led a revolt in 1841 against the slave traders who held him captive. By explaining Washington’s motives, Douglas explored the justification behind violent resistance and gave voice to his own frustrations over the Fugitive Slave
The Compromise of 1850 was primarily about the future of slavery in the new territories and the Union. Out of the Compromise of 1850 came “The Fugitive Slave Law”, which gave owners of escaped slaves the power and the resources to procure their escaped slaves. It constituted one of its provisions was controversial federal laws that intended to pacify the slaveholding south and enraged the Northern abolitionist and ultimately provoked the Civil War.
The compromise was necessitated by the United States annexation of territory stretching from Texas to California after the Mexican American War (1846-1848). This national expansion confirmed “The Manifest Destiny”, ideology that claimed that God intended …show more content…
Instead the law appointed commissioners to oversee the trials, who were compensated $5 for freeing a fugitive but $10 for returning on to the south. Northerners were outraged over the law’s ruling that they were required to assist in the capture and return of escaped slaves. Northern free blacks were particularly alarmed that the law did not contain allowances for those blacks who were not escaped slaves; blacks who lived their whole lives as free could be captured and sent into southern states as slaves who had never experienced slavery a day in their lives. Many slaves and free blacks fled to Canada because Canada would not …show more content…
He was taught to read by the wife of one of his masters; although she had been told that it was illegal and unsafe to teach a slave to read- and taught himself to write in the shipyards of Baltimore. Douglas began a life devoted to the cause of freedom, for women as well as blacks. In the process, he became one of the most famous men in America, black or white. A speaker of extraordinary power, Douglas was first employed by William Lloyd Garrison’s Anti Slavery Society. During the Civil War, he became an advisor to Lincoln, recruiting black soldiers for the Union cause and lobbying for their equal pay, which was reluctantly granted. After the war he accepted a number of government appointments, and was later made ambassador to Haiti. Douglas also started his own newspaper and spoke vividly out about slavery. In 1853 Douglas authored The Heroic Slave, a fictionalized account of the life of Madison Washington, a slave who led a revolt in 1841 against the slave traders who held him captive. By explaining Washington’s motives, Douglas explored the justification behind violent resistance and gave voice to his own frustrations over the Fugitive Slave