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Slaves, Salt, Sex and Mr. Crenshaw: The Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Reverse Underground R. R.. IllinoisHistory.com, 2008. IllinoisHistory.com, 2008. Myers, Jacob W. “ History of the Gallatin County Salines”, October 1921-January 1922, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society , 14:3-4.
Palatine Township is one of 29 townships in Cook County, Illinois, United States.As of the 2020 census, its population was 114,403. [2] It is the north central township of the six northwest townships that form the Cook County panhandle.
Barclay is an unincorporated community in Clear Lake and Williams townships, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States. Barclay is located on Illinois Route 54 and the Canadian National Railway , 1.3 miles (2.1 km) northeast of Spaulding .
Hull House, the first settlement house in Chicago. This is a list of settlement houses in Chicago.. Settlement houses, which reached their peak popularity in the early 20th century, were marked by a residential approach to social work: the social workers ("residents") would live in the settlement house, and thus be a part of the same communities as the people they served.
Equality is a village in Gallatin County, Illinois, United States.The population was 539 at the 2020 census. [3] Near the village are two points of interest, the Crenshaw House and the Garden of the Gods Wilderness.
Although it focuses on exhibiting African-American culture, it is one of several Chicago museums that celebrates Chicago's ethnic and cultural heritage. [ 17 ] Antoinette Wright, director of the DuSable Black History Museum, has said that African-American art has grown out of a need for the culture to preserve its history orally and in art due ...
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 ...
The Jones household was a stop on the Underground Railroad and a center of abolitionist activity in the pre-Civil War era, helping hundreds of fugitive slaves flee slavery. After her husband's death in 1879, Jones continued to support African-American civil rights and advancement in Chicago, and became a suffragist .