olete thoughts. Think paragraph (no need for ABC). Background-There was a lot of resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Mobs of people, white and black, would attempt to rescue fugitive slaves who had been arrested by U.S. Marshalls or seized by slave-catchers empowered to act under the law. On Occasion, people died in these encounters. Juries would not convict people who were clearly guilty of attempting to interfere with the law. People also covertly resisted the law by participating in the Underground Railroad. Compare this to the non-violent direct action of the Indian movement for independence led by Mahatma Gandhi (Google if needed) and the U.S. Civil Rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King. When is violent resistance justified, when is covert (secret) resistance (like the Underground Railroad) justified, and when is nonviolent direct action called for.

olete thoughts. Think paragraph (no need for ABC). Background-There was a lot of resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Mobs of people, white and black, would attempt to rescue fugitive slaves who had been arrested by U.S. Marshalls or seized by slave-catchers empowered to act under the law. On Occasion, people died in these encounters. Juries would not convict people who were clearly guilty of attempting to interfere with the law. People also covertly resisted the law by participating in the Underground Railroad. Compare this to the non-violent direct action of the Indian movement for independence led by Mahatma Gandhi (Google if needed) and the U.S. Civil Rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King. When is violent resistance justified, when is covert (secret) resistance (like the Underground Railroad) justified, and when is nonviolent direct action called for.