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1854

How Wisconsin Helped This Escaped Slave to Freedom

In 1854, freedom seeker Joshua Glover was captured near Racine under the Fugitive Slave Act, then freed from a Milwaukee jail by a crowd of thousands. Learn how his rescue led Wisconsin to defy federal law.

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