Think Like a Historian

Slavery in the U.S. during the 19th century was a very controversial practice due to the northern half of the U.S. opposing it, and the southern half supporting it. The North however, was not totally against slavery. Almost all of the north knew that slavery was morally wrong, but some would still participate in the slave trade against their own principles.

The North had people that participated in the slave trade and also people who opposed it. Some people would go as far as silence anti-slavery movements just so that their town doesn't get a bad reputation with the southern states and lose business. William Lloyd Garrison was actually chased out of Boston when he tried to speak publicly about the abolition of slavery. People in the north knew that slavery was immoral, but they chased a man out of town because they did not want to ruin the reputation of the north to the south.

I would simply publish all of the stories including the one of Garrison in order to show the world how the North was corrupt when it came to slavery. I would include charts like how the North relied on the cotton production of the South, so the North would not want to ruin the relation between them and the South over slavery, and how The Lowell Patriot called people like Garrison "fanatics" for the same reasons. That is how I would share my information with the world.

Above is a picture of William Lloyd Garrison, an abolitionist who was run out of Boston for speaking out against slavery in public.