Ken's Burn Civil War Video

More than three million Americans fought in the civil war, and three percent of the population died from it. The war made some people rich and turned others poor. Lincoln rised up to be the best president. Harriet Tubman was an abolutionist. She wanted to stop slavery in Washington, and the Southerners asked for a more effective fugitive slave law. Harriet was the most famous underground railroad conductor. She escaped from Maryland in 1849. She risked her freedom by returning nineteen times to save other slaves, including her parents. She rescued about three hundred slaves. Slaves were not treated very poorly. They were whipped, had severe punishments, mutialted, and sometimes even killed.
The slaves did not rebel alot. However, there is this rebellion that was really marked in time. It was called the Nat Turner's Rebellion. He said it was his mission to kill the enemis with their own weapons. Turner led about thirty slaves on a murderous rampage through Virgina, they killed about sixty men, women, and children. However two months later Nat Turner was found and he was killed. (All the leaders of rebellions would get killed). Because of this rebellion slaves were not allowed to have a proper education.