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The Missouri Compromise/The Fugitive Slave Act/Kansas-Nebraska Act: How many more acts will they pass in this country. I would be much easier to make one act abolishing slavery than making three to confine the limits of slavery. The Missouri Compromise Worked with the Fugitive Act in allowing slave owners to cross state lines to retrieve their "property", only after show satisfactory evidence to a court of law. The Missouri Compromise, in order to please people who were against slavery, admitted California as a free state in this country and stopped slave trading in the District of Columbia (but not slavery). The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the people living in the Kansas/Nebraska Territories to vote on whether they wanted to be a free state or a slave state. Abolishing slavery seem to me to be the best choice, also the easiest instead of having to pass so many laws.

The Great Postal Campaign: This was a nice idea, but was not thought through. The Great Postal Campaign was a way, in the word of Lewis Tappan, " to sow the good seed of abolition thoroughly over the whole country". The campaign used the United States Postal Service to send anti-slavery pamphlet and newpapers to the entire country, causing an uprise in the southern white community. The organizers of this event should have thought about the reaction they woud have recieved from these people and what they would do to change it. But honestly I wouldn't know how to change it either.

The Amistad Court Case: What a great case!! This was an exciting and historical case, when I read about it in the Liberator, I began to weep. A group of men captured form their home in Africa, overthrew the crew of the Amistad. They demanded to be sailed back to Africa, but were instead sailed to Long Island, New York and were arrested. With help of Lewis Tappan, took the captain of that ship to court and even presented their case to the highest court of the land, The Supreme Court and won their freedom. They were sent back to their home. This is one of many steps that need to be taken in order to fulfill our dream in having a completely free country!