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From 1600-1700 African men and women were taken and brought to North America to be slaves
Slaves ran away and slave owners set rewards for them.
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Sojourner Truth was a former slave until she escaped in 1826, then New York got rid of slavery.
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Slaves risked their lives traveling the underground railroad where abolitionists helped them.
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The Second Baptist Church was an important part of the underground railroad.
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As the nation bickered over slavery, 3,000 people met in Jackson,Michigan, on July 6, 1854 because they believed that they were not doing enough to keep slavery away from the western territories.
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When Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter off the coast of South Carolina, that was when the CIVIL WAR began. Almost 1,000 Michiganians rushed to join the fight, when President Lincoln saw the soldiers, he said... "Thank God for Michigan!"
(Yay Michigan!😀)
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In all, more than 90,000 Michigan Men fought in the Civil War-- one of every four men in the state.
When it was still early, the South seemed to be winning, but then, on September 17, 1862 there was a horrible battle in Antietam, Maryland. It was a Union victory but both sides were shocked at the losses.
On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation. To emancipate means to free someone. What the Emancipation Proclamation did was it freed all slaves in the Confederate States.
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In the end, the Union states won the war and slavery was abolished in America. But when there is a happy moment, there is always a sad moment following. The sad moment in this is that five days after the win a Southerner named John Wilkes Booth shot and killed President Lincoln. Several people mourned of the loss and for the the almost 15,000 men who died in the Civil War fighting for the Union.
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