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EVENTS AND STORIES

Contemporary with Underground Railroad activities in Wisconsin in the years leading up to the American Civil War is a rich heritage of abolition events and politics that shed light on the people and the communities involved.

Caroline Quarrels (1842)

C. C. Olin's Account of Caroline Quarrells, from W. H. Siebert's The Underground Railroad in Wisconsin

Joshua Glover (1854)

Henry E. Legler, "Rescue of Joshua Glover, a Runaway Slave," in Leading Events of Wisconsin History, 1898: www.library.wisc.edu/etext/wireader/WER1124.html

"Ripon's Booth War (1860)," (historical study based on Wisconsin newspaper accounts): www.wlhn.org/topics/boothwar/booth_war_intro.htm

Pardon Davis (1854 )

Don A. Sanford, "Pardon Davis: A Prisoner in Louisiana," (historical study based on Seventh Day Baptist sources): www.wlhn.org/wnf/stories/pardondavis.htm

Newspaper Reports and Other Fragments

1854: "Slave-hunters appear to be particularly busy in Wisconsin," The Sabbath Recorder, April 20, 1854 (v. X245, p. 179)

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