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rlane42 · **on:** Aug 9, 2018

Discuss each of the fugitive slave cases. What are their main similarities or differences?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

arely a month after Lincoln's inauguration, Confederate leaders demanded that the U.S. surrender __________ in Charleston, South Carolina.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

wshriver · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 9, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Define the details of each fugitive slave case: William and Ellen Craft, Shadrach Minkins, and Anthony Burns.
2. Explain the similarities: each person was black and resisting being physically taken into slavery in the northern states. Their cases were well-publicized and politicized the abolitionist movement and helped to bring on the Civil War.
3. The differences lay in the details of each case, particularly regarding Burns, who escaped from slavery but was recaptured and went on trial. He was later purchased and freed by sympathetic whites.
4. Explain that Minkins was freed by violent force of arms while on trial to be reenslaved.
5. Note that the Crafts escaped from slavery by passing as a white master and his slave and eluded slave catchers by sailing to Europe with the help of abolitionists.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Fort Sumter