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Title: Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ot believe in slaveryThe under- voted for this law, because they feared that the country would beroad ^^ tli^ic^ed if they refused. The slaveholder said, This negro ismy property. I paid for him, and I have a right to claim himwherever I can find him; but when a negro who had made hisescape appeared before the door of a man who believed thatslavery was wrong, that man was much inclined to help the fugi-tive, even if the government did order that he should be given up.Anti-slavery men would hide these runaway slaves, and pass themon from one to another, concealed in all sorts of ways, until theywere safe in Canada. This system was so secret and so success-ful that it was spoken of as the underground railroad. People were talking of slavery more than anything else, and Uncle Toms into the midst of the discussion came )Mrs. Stowes Uncle Toms ^ Cabin, painting the life of the slave in the darkest colors. The North believed that it was a truthful picture and opposed slavery more than ever.
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TROUBLE ARISES OVER SLAVERY 205 The Missouri Compromise declared that all territory north of Bleeding36° 30 should be free; but now, influenced by the friends ofsquatter sovereignty, Congress voted that, although Kansasand Nebraska were north of the line, yet when they wished tocome m as states, they might be free or slaveholding, as theychose. Then there was a struggle to win the new territories.Settlers from the slave states round about pressed into Kansas.Anti-slavery men in the North became colonists or gave money tohelp to send others. Both parties were sure that they were inthe right; both were eager and excited. There were battles be-tween them, and for several years there was so much bloodshedin the territory that it was called bleeding Kansas. In a battleat Osawatomie, one of the fighters was John Brown, of Connecti-cut, who fought so fiercely that he was afterwards often called Osawatomie Brown. The one aim of liis life was, as he said, towage eternal war with slavery, and

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