an autobiography or a formerly
enslaved person who escaped to
the North
a record of Congressional debates
the membership lists of an
abolitionist group
the accounting books of Southern
slaveowners
Question
How did enslaved people escape
from slave states to the free states?
Was slavery becoming more or less
profitable for wealthy Southerners?
What kinds of Northerners became
anti-slavery activists?
Did any laws about slavery ever get
discussed in Congress?
Source