On July 4th, 1842, Caroline Quarlls left family, friends, and the only life she’d known behind in St. Louis, Missouri. As the child of a slave mother and a slave owner father, her young life w
When William "Blue" Jenkins was only?six months old, he moved with his parents from a Mississippi sharecropper’s farm to the industrial city of Racine, Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. As an Afric
People running from slavery made many hard journeys to find freedom—on steamboats and in carriages, across rivers and in hay-covered wagons. Some were shot at. Many were chased by slave catchers. Othe
Discusses the lives of immigrants who moved to Wisconsin in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the home they left, the moving experience, and their new life in Wisconsin.
