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McFarland, Joe. "When Salt was Gold - Illinois DNR Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine", Outdoor Illinois, October 2009. Springfield, IL: Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Musgrave, Jon. Slaves, Salt, Sex and Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground R. R.. IllinoisHistory.com, 2008.
The Code Noir, an earlier version of the later Illinois Black codes regulated behavior and treatment of slaves and of free people of color in the French colonial empire, including the Illinois Country of New France from 1685 to 1763 Indian slave of the Fox tribe either in the Illinois Country or the Nipissing tribe in upper French Colonial Canada, circa 1732 The second Governor of Illinois ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Plantations may be the most obvious destinations tied to slavery, ... He’s spent more than a dozen years visiting and spending the night in places where enslaved people lived, to draw attention ...
A large number of enslaved people lived and worked at White Haven. According to the National Park Service, during the 1850s slave labor "was used extensively in the farming and maintenance of the 850-acre plantation." [3] From 1854 to 1859, Grant lived here with his wife, Julia, and their children, managing the farm for his father-in-law ...
James Blair (c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [39] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist. [40] Shadrach Bond (1773–1832), 1st Governor of Illinois, he enslaved people on his farm in Monroe County. [41]
Free Frank McWorter (c. 1777 – September 7, 1854) was an American born into slavery who bought his freedom in Kentucky and in 1836 founded the town of New Philadelphia in Illinois; he was the first African American to plat and register a town, and establish a planned community in the United States. [1]
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