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Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1884-08-12 |
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| County: | Waukesha |
| City: | Oconomowoc |
| Date: | 1884-09-09 |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | The stables at the Milton House. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite quarter-length vignetted portrait of Katherine Schloesser (later Estabrook), dated via caption to "about Civil War time." Schloesser was a ... |
| The Story of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist |
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| Discover the story of Jonathan Walker, "Slave Stealer." |
| Temperance, Abolition and Utopian Communities |
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| Discovery how early Americans founded the abolition and temperance movements to help increase morality |
| Fugitive Slave |
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| Biography of Caroline Quarlls, the first fugitive slave conducted through Wisconsin's underground railroad network to freedom. |
| Community: | Racine |
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| County: | Racine |
| Historic Name: | Karel Jonas House |
| Reference Number: | 10915 |
| How Wisconsin Eliminated the Death Penalty |
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| Read about the final person to be executed in Wisconsin before the state prohibited the death penalty. |
| Civil Rights Law |
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| Learn about the Milwaukee based lawyer who won two of Wisconsin's most important civil rights cases and was on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. |
| Spiritualist, Social Reformer and Politician |
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| Biography of spiritualist, social reformer and politician Warren Chase. |
| Learn to use primary source materials to teach students about the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin in the 1850s. |
| Temperance Lecturer, Abolitionist and Newspaper Editor |
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| Biography of temperance lecturer, abolitionist and newspaper editor Sherman Miller Booth. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Arm and leg restraints that bound John McCaffary, the last man executed in Wisconsin, 1851. (Museum object #1976.249.1–.2) |
| Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
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| Mathilde Anneke; Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers |
| Two Lawyers Spur Abolitionist Reform and Universal Voting Rights |
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| Learn how Byron Paine and Halbert E. Paine used the power of law for radical abolitionist reform in mid-19th century Wisconsin. |
| A Good Mother, a Good Friend and a Good Woman |
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| Discover Juliet Severance, the free-thinking Whitewater physician who was involved with the anti-slavery movement, temperance and women's rights. |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
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