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...
| 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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| Recollections of Wisconsin slaves by pioneer settlers. |
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| A Milwaukee newspaper disputes the results of the 1849 referendum on black suffrage |
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| An African American attempts to vote in Milwaukee in 1865 |
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| A Waukesha editor recalls the underground railroad |
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| The Abolitionist Movement in Wisconsin Recalled (1907) |
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| Byron Paine argues on behalf of Booth before the Supreme Court, 1854 |
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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. |
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| A bricklayer recalls storming the Milwaukee jail to liberate Glover |
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| A look at the life and legacy of Frances Willard |
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| A temperance society forms in 1835 |
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| A Wisconsin officer refuses to give slaves back to their owners (1), 1862 |
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| A Wisconsin officer refuses to give slaves back to their owners (2), 1862 |
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| The Wisconsin Supreme Court reaffirms black voting rights, 1866 |
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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. |
| The 6-foot knife that symbolized Northern sentiments in 1860. |
| Wisconsin Outlaws Capital Punishment (1853) |
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| An Abolitionist Recalls Anti-Slavery Days in Wisconsin |
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| Underground railroad conductors recall some courageous escapes. |
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| A Wisconsin Republican leader repudiates slavery in 1860 |
| Portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie |
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| A portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie |
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| An 1854 broadside announcing an abolitionist rally. |
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| Abolitionist leader and editor, Sherman Booth (1812-1904) |
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| Photograph of attorney Byron Paine, ca. 1860 |
| Carl Schurz meets with Abraham Lincoln, July 1860 |
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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 |
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| A Racine man looks back on his years with the underground railroad |
| A Wisconsin stop on the Underground Railroad |
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| Wisconsin Blue Books |
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| A history of the Joshua Glover case (1898) |
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| Five hundred political texts revealing abolitionist "treason" (1864) |
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| The Wisconsin Supreme Court declares the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, 1854 |
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| Letters of Republican politician Carl Schurz 1841-1869 |
| Records of the underground railroad in Wisconsin. |
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| Documents relating to the anti-slavery movement and the underground railroad in Wisconsin |
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| A Wisconsin soldier witnesses the Fugitive Slave Law in action, 1862 |
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| The first fugitive slave escape to Canada from Wisconsin in 1842 |
