HISC45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Levi Coffin, Lucretia Mott, Northern United States
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Influx of immigrants also began after the american victory in the revolutionary war. Another influx came in after the war of 1812. Ranged from 15k-40k-70k: primarily 22,000-23,000, the abolitionists who fought the evils of slavery and sometimes exaggerated the numbers; the anti-abolitionists inflated the numbers. Fugitive slaves who escaped the carolinas: free black men and women came from the northern states. Hence, canada in a way failed to li(cid:448)e up to its (cid:374)a(cid:373)e of a (cid:858)safe ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)(cid:859) Mary shad carrey* was another runaway slave. The diversity of experiences: rural areas: people became farmers are were involved in the rural settlements. Howard law talks about the attempts of the middle class to develop those communities. Before the american revolution, slavery existed on paper throughout all of the. American colonies (although some colonies did not have slaves: after 1773, slavery was gradually abolished in the north, by the early 19th century, slavery was a big phenomenon only in the southern states.
