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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.
Sprawling Southern plantations have long attracted visitors with their stately mansions and carefully manicured gardens. “When you're going through those massive houses and looking at the ...
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]
Point of Pines Plantation Slave Cabin, Edisto Island, SC, NRHP-listed Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation , Mars Bluff, South Carolina, NRHP-listed Annandale Plantation (Georgetown County, South Carolina)
The Mountaintop Project is a multi-year, $35 million effort to restore Monticello as Jefferson knew it, and to tell the stories of the people—enslaved and free—who lived and worked on the ...
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.