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Henry Dodge was also the half-brother of Missouri Senator Lewis F. Linn. James Clarke, the Governor of Iowa Territory, was his son-in-law. [1] Henry Dodge was also a slave owner, possessing the body and lives of five enslaved men - Toby, Tom, Lear, Jim, and Joe — who worked as smelters long after he promised to free them. [2]
Henry Dodge (1782–1867), 1st and 4th Governor of the Wisconsin Territory. In 1827, defying the Northwest Ordinance's prohibition of slavery in the territory, Dodge brought five Black slaves from Missouri to work his lead mines. [103] Thomas Dorland (1759–1832), Quaker, farmer and politician in Upper Canada, he enslaved as many as 20 people ...
Aiken was a slave owner, and owned the Smith family slave plantation after marrying Miss Smith of Abbeville, which held about 40 slaves. [13] [14] William Aiken: Democratic: South Carolina's 6th district, 2nd district Mar. 3, 1851 Mar. 2, 1857 700+
Benson noted that Henry Dodge, the first territorial governor of Wisconsin, was among them, enslaving five people in Wisconsin. Most of the slaves in Wisconsin, including Dodge's, gained their ...
President Andrew Jackson appointed Henry Dodge Governor and Horner Secretary. The first legislative assembly of the new territory was convened by Governor Dodge at Belmont, in the present Lafayette County, on October 25, 1836. [8] In 1837, Burlington, Iowa, became the second territorial capital of the Wisconsin Territory. The next year, the ...
This convention nominated Van Buren for president and Senator Henry Dodge for vice president. [17] In the aftermath of Taylor's nomination, a contingent of disgruntled Whigs led by Massachusetts delegates Henry Wilson and Charles Allen withdrew from the Philadelphia convention and called for a new meeting of antislavery advocates at Buffalo. [18]
The actor reflected on the monarch’s decision to support research into the royals and slavery Lenny Henry thinks King Charles ‘has an interest’ in slavery and reparations: ‘He might do ...
Dodgeville, which was named after Dodge, [5] grew slowly during its early years. It was incorporated as a village in the 1840s. It was incorporated as a village in the 1840s. [ citation needed ] Later a small "war" was fought with Mineral Point over which community would become the seat of Iowa County after Lafayette County was created.