The first half of the nineteenth century was a time of dramatic change in the United States. New technology rapidly transformed business and industry, as well as agriculture. The beginnings of industrialization stimulated shifts in population from rural to more urban areas. Waves of immigrants arrived at eastern port cities. And the availability of low-cost land on the western frontier with the continual acquisition of national territory prompted thousands to set out for the West. These economic and demographic dislocations introduced new social problems and aggravated long-existing ones, especially those concerning matters of poverty, morality, and social justice. Though less... more...
| A Wisconsin officer refuses to give slaves back to their owners (2), 1862 |
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| An Overview of Ceresco |
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| Reward Advertisement for Joshua Glover (1852) |
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| Joshua Glover's Pursuers State Their Case (1854) |
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| The Abolitionist Movement in Wisconsin Recalled (1907) |
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| Recollections of Wisconsin slaves by pioneer settlers. |
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| A Waukesha editor recalls the underground railroad |
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| An African American attempts to vote in Milwaukee in 1865 |
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| A Milwaukee newspaper disputes the results of the 1849 referendum on black suffrage |
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| Byron Paine argues on behalf of Booth before the Supreme Court, 1854 |
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| The Wisconsin Supreme Court reaffirms black voting rights, 1866 |
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| A Wisconsin officer refuses to give slaves back to their owners (1), 1862 |
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| A temperance society forms in 1835 |
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| A look at the life and legacy of Frances Willard |
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| A bricklayer recalls storming the Milwaukee jail to liberate Glover |
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| Reformers organize to curb alcohol abuse in 1840. |
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| An experimental community establishes its rules, 1845 |
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| A brief history of Ceresco, 1885 |
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| A Grant County slave sues his master for wages in 1846. |
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| An escaped slave's experience in Wisconsin in 1847. |
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| Janesville residents refuse to turn over a fugitive slave in 1861. |
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| Letters of Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips on the Glover Case. |
| The 6-foot knife that symbolized Northern sentiments in 1860. |
| A Wisconsin Republican leader repudiates slavery in 1860 |
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| An Abolitionist Recalls Anti-Slavery Days in Wisconsin |
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| Wisconsin Outlaws Capital Punishment (1853) |
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| Underground railroad conductors recall some courageous escapes. |
| Portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie |
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| Photograph of attorney Byron Paine, ca. 1860 |
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| An 1854 broadside announcing an abolitionist rally. |
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| A portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie |
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| Abolitionist leader and editor, Sherman Booth (1812-1904) |
| Carl Schurz meets with Abraham Lincoln, July 1860 |
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| A Racine man looks back on his years with the underground railroad |
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| Activists in Waukesha County organize to fight slavery, 1847. |
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| A former slaveholder explains how he became an abolitionist, 1840 |
| A Wisconsin stop on the Underground Railroad |
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| Letters of Republican politician Carl Schurz 1841-1869 |
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| The Wisconsin Supreme Court declares the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, 1854 |
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| Wisconsin Blue Books |
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| Five hundred political texts revealing abolitionist "treason" (1864) |
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| Wisconsin celebrates 50 years of black freedom, 1915 |
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| A history of the Joshua Glover case (1898) |
| Documents relating to the anti-slavery movement and the underground railroad in Wisconsin |
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| The first fugitive slave escape to Canada from Wisconsin in 1842 |
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| A Wisconsin soldier witnesses the Fugitive Slave Law in action, 1862 |
