Posts Tagged ‘Fugitive Slave Laws’
Joshua Glover Day
Inaugural Observance of the Rescue of Joshua Glover. You are invited to participate in a planned celebration to commemorate the rescue of Joshua Glover from a Milwaukee jail on March 18th, 1854.
Read MoreHow Does a City Choose to Remember its Past?
Many Milwaukeeans are familiar with the 1854 abolitionist rescue of Joshua Glover, an African American who escaped slavery and found sanctuary in Wisconsin. Far fewer know about the horrific racial lynching of George Marshall Clark, a free black man, that happened only seven years later in Milwaukee. What was their story, and how have we remembered these two men?
Read MoreAbolitionists Rescue Fugitive Slave from Boston Courtroom
The arrest of Shadrach Minkins, the first person to be arrested in New England under fugitive slave laws, catalyzed the grater rebellion.
Read MoreWilliam Parker and the Resistance at Christiana, September 11, 1851
William Parker led the first rebellion against fugitive slave laws in 1851, but more followed at enslaved people resisted.
Read MoreSome Exhibits to Come – Three Centuries Of Enslavement
See a list of of some of the exhibits planned for this gallery.
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