The Road to Emancipation

The Road to Emancipation was not just the Civil War nor the Emancipation Proclamation.  It was a drumbeat increasing over time.

Elijah Lovejoy - martyr to the Cause of Freedom in 1837.  Defender of Free Speech and Freedom of the Press

John Brown - 

Uncle Tom's Cabin - authored by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852