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It may come as a surprise to learn that during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries slavery existed in the region that would become the state of Wisconsin. Over this period, thousands of enslaved African Americans or enslaved American Indians lived and worked in this region.
Slaves were held in Wisconsin for more than a century, and documentary evidence exists confirming about 100 different individuals. The earliest mention of any slave in Wisconsin comes from a 1725 speech, when a chief of the Illinois Indians refers to the massacre of four Frenchmen and "a negro belonging to Monsieur de Boisbriant" at Green Bay.
6 dni temu · Throughout the 1850s Wisconsin was a leader in the abolition of slavery. Slaves passed through the Underground Railroad on their way to Canada. In 1854 Wisconsin abolitionists held meetings in a schoolhouse in Ripon, where they recommended forming a new political party called Republican.
There are approximately 200 modern reference maps available of basic cultural and geographical data about Wisconsin and its history. The maps are primarily intended for teachers, students, and others needing answers to simple questions such as: Where were Wisconsin's Indian tribes when the first white explorers arrived?
The first known inhabitants of what is now Wisconsin were Paleo-Indians, who first arrived in the region in about 10,000 BC at the end of the Ice Age. The retreating glaciers left behind a tundra in Wisconsin inhabited by large animals, such as mammoths, mastodons, bison, giant beaver, and muskox.
Composite of maps from Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 11 (1888): 452-61. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota constituted what became the northern tier of states in the Northwest Territory.
28 wrz 2011 · PART III SLAVERY AMONG THE INDIGENOUS AMERICANS; 9 Slavery in Indigenous North America; 10 Indigenous Slavery in South America, 1492–1820; PART IV SLAVERY AND SERFDOM IN EASTERN EUROPE; PART V SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS; PART VI CULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN THE AMERICAS
