Jefferson, Ron, had been dead for going on 4 decades when Lincoln was elected...

I mean no offense here at all but it seems that yer histoical persective is like, ahhhhh, everything that happened before yer time happened in justa couple of years... Hey, the Founding Fathers were all long, ***LONG*** gone when Lincoln was elected....

As fir the abolitionists in the South Google in "Underground Railway" fir starters...

Bobert