LINKS

General Resources

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (National Park Service)

SHSW Archives Catalog: arcat.library.wisc.edu

SHSW Historical Buildings Inventory: www.shsw.wisc.edu/histbuild/buildings/index.html

SHSW Local History Clippings (available December, 2001)

SHSW Selected Wisconsin Obituaries (available 2002)

Legislation and Court Decisions

J. Taney, "Ableman v. Booth, 62 U. S. 506," available through William M. Brinton's Web site, An Abridged History of the United States:
www.us-history.com/case_law/chap_2/ableman_booth.txt

United States, Fugitive Slave Act (9/18/1850), available through The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/fugitive.htm

United States Supreme Court, Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), available through the Guilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University: www.yale.edu/glc/archive/923.htm

Events & Stories

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)," on Wisconsin Local History Network: www.wlhn.org/topics/boothwar/booth_war_intro.htm

North American Slave Narratives from "Documenting the American South," a University of North Carolina electronic document project. http://docsouth.unc.edu/