2 10 24 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/5a4524c95627ee0cb26e81f9e840372b.jpg dccaec7cc3cb4e19575a9eb1b3326c07 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data hand-knitted quilt Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Quilt code</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>underground railroad quilts</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>This quilt, on display in Jacksonville, Illinois' Woodlawn Farm historic site, is represented to illustrate the Underground Railroad's reliance on quilts to communicate secret information among fugitive slaves. Folk tales about such quilts claim that their knots and patterns told about how and where to travel. For example, a monkey wrench pattern directed slaves to carry their tools. A flying geese pattern pointed the direction slaves should travel. The bow tie and shoofly patterns directed slaves to wear better clothing than they did as slaves, to avoid detection in cities. A drunkards path pattern directed slaves to travel in a zig zag pattern, which, not coincidentally, was also the alleged pattern of safe houses. The star pattern directed slaves to follow the North Star. But underground railroad quilts, as a tool of freedom seekers, is a myth. The myth of the quilt reflects the fact that fugitive slaves and their allies communicated in secret, but relies on false assumptions about slave catchers’ naivete and slaves’ involvement with, and dependence on, a domestic production of white middle class society.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Woodlawn Farm historic site</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1840-1860s</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Woodlawn Farm historic site</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #14</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> antislavery Illinois Military Tract myths quilts slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/60c1359e172f9e282c2dbd46037f1330.jpg e86246e12dfd0ed6856ccc10c82b7f3c Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper illustration Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Come ride on the "Liberty Line"</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Misconceptions of the Underground Railroad</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The advertisement offers free travel to Canada those “who may wish to improve their health and circumstances.” A WIURR conductor, John Cross, of Knoxville, submitted this widely reproduced illustration to the Western Citizen. In 1842 he had been assaulted for harboring two women, Susan Borders and Hannah Morrison, and their three children, who had escaped illegal enslavement in Randolph County, Illinois. Cross was an ordained Congregational minister who came to Illinois from New York in 1839. The “Liberty Line” was not a real railroad, but a network of sympathetic northerners who helped escaped slaves flee to freedom, many to Canada, were slavery had been abolished. The representation of the "Liberty Line" as a train likely contributed to later misconceptions of the antislavery human network as an actual railroad line.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>New York Public Library Digital Gallery</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/21748</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>July 1844</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>None asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image with text</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #13</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Military Tract myths newspaper advertisements slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/82985a8e10a78a5f74602482233d1e33.jpg edc06c02aeb0c015d414185e22ad29b4 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A tombstone in a mixed raced community cemetery</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>African American Cemetery, New Philadelphia, Illinois</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Photograph by the Illinois State Museum of the McWorter or Old Cemetery, where the remains of African American residents of Philadelphia, Illinois were buried. Philadelphia was a village in southwestern Illinois founded in 1836 by Frank McWorter, a former slave who sold land lots to black, white, and mixed-race settlers, using the proceeds to buy the freedom of sixteen relatives. New Philadelphia, as it became known, is claimed to have been an underground railroad station. It flourished until the late nineteenth century.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Illinois State Museum</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>2005</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>courtesy Illinois State Museum</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #12</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Military Tract New Philadelphia slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/8d789a08a2f342f839550e19e44533c9.jpg d1fa227fa7335d85f644181db2bce059 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/83477b7163dff6c3964aa55faedb017c.jpg bd6a76555039f1083d0ab3a4d48ee78f https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/c94a1a5f1038edf0cf08f84df2acad98.jpg 309570acaa599a1b4f7f6126b0d7290a https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/7809a03cb1bf1feede144a47a8685d32.jpg 65cc7a52911d18d35dd18006d98376ba Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document To the McDonough County Historical Society Ladies and Gentlemen: I HAVE been asked to write a historical account of the underground railway that was in existence in McDonough county before the Civil war, but it is impossible, after a lapse of more than sixty years, with no authentic records to draw from, to assemble anything like a chronological account of the events that transpired in those troubled times. As it is my aim to deal only with those events that I know to be true, I must therefore confine my account largely to episodes that came directly under my attention as a boy, and to incidents related to me by my father and mother, coupled with much valuable information secured from the children of Andrew and Harmon Allison, who like the Blazers were ardent abolitionists, and a part of the underground system. I trust that this account, which is as accurate and complete as it is in my power to give it at this late date, may assist you in gaining an idea of the strife and animosities that existed in the decade ending in 1860. It was preached that slavery was a divine institution and that the negro was nothing more than an animal; the fearless men who operated the underground system were criminals in the eyes of the law but they gained courage for their dangerous work in the firm belief that they were performing a duty in the eyes of God and that the black man was a human being with a soul. All underground railroads started on the line of some free state that bordered on a slave state. The road that extended through McDonough county started at Quincy, which was station No. 1, receiving negroes from across the Mississippi river in Missouri. Station No. 2 was down at Round Prairie in Hancock county, at the Pettyjohn or Burton home. Station No. 3, in McDonough county, was generally at the home of some one of the Blazers down on Camp Creek in Industry township, or at the home of Uncle Billy Allison, or one of his sons up on Troublesome Creek. Part of them lived in Chalmers and others in Scotland township. Station No. 4 was at the home of Henry Dobbins in Fulton county, from whence cargoes of negroes were dispatched to Galesburg, Princeton and on to Canada, the terminus of all underground railroads. It is interesting to recall that the Princeton station was in charge of the Lovejoy family, which played such an important part in the early abolition movement. Oratorical Genius No Match For Hatred Against Emancipation At the time when the quarrel between the abolitionists and adherents of slavery was becoming most bitter, proponents of emancipation engaged an orator to speak afternoon and night at Old Camp Creek church, then located about a mile and a half southeast of Ebenezer church and a like distance southwest of the present Camp Creek church. Antagonists served notice that the speaker would not be permitted to talk, and when the afternoon meeting hour drew near there was an organized gang present bent on breaking up the meeting and probably doing violence to the orator. These men were armed and acting in a threatening manner. The atmosphere was tense with excitement. Bloodshed was feared. There were men and women present, who, while not in sympathy with any argument that could be delivered against slavery, were governed by cooler judgments, and they prevailed upon the gang not to start any trouble. “Let him speak; we’d like to hear what he has to say,” was the admonition that calmed the armed band. The address was an impassioned speech depicting the negro in chains, cowed to the dust under the whip of the master, sold and bartered like cattle and torn asunder mother from child, father from son—the negro, though black by no fault of his own, born in the image of his Creator and entitled to life, liberty and happiness no less than his white brother. The orator held his audience well, but only for the moment. Animosities were too bitter to be wiped out with a single flash of oratorical genius; hatred of the negro as a free and equal being was too deeply imbedded. When the address was finished and the more inflammable minds descended to the level of everyday thinking, these hatreds and animosities again came to the surface, and there was a general determination that the speaker had said enough for one day. A council of the abolitionists was held, and both men and women debated whether or not it would be advisable to permit the speaker to go through with his evening program. It was finally decided that in order to avoid probable bloodshed, the evening session should be called off. Men Carried Rifles When They Went to the Ballot Box In 1852 the abolitionists had a candidate for president in John P. Hale. The adherents of slavery declared there should not be an abolitionist vote cast in McDonough county. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Testimony of a conductor</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>The first pages of a transcript of a public lecture by David Blazer to the McDonough County (Illinois) Historical Society, 1922</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>David Blazer, of Aledo, Illinois, shared his memory and specific details of the underground railroad activities of his father, uncle, grandfather, and of another family, the Allisons, in McDonough County, Illinois before the Civil War.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>David Blazer</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4><em>History of the underground railroad of McDonough County, Illinois</em></h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Aledo, Il.:Times Record Company</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1922</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>public domain</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg image</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>text</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #11</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Library of Congress</h4> Allison family antislavery Blazer family David Blazer Illinois McDonough County Military Tract slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/828aa391601dc0b72504ddbf231f1ad3.jpg b3586749c192dd479c99cadebbf566b8 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Path to Freedom on Illinois’ Underground Railroad Visit the secret places slaves stayed in Illinois while fleeing the South. After the Civil War, slaves heading north toward freedom began trickling into Illinois. Even though Illinois was a free state, it was far from being a safe or welcoming place for slaves. The state’s Black Laws denied African Americans most fundamental freedoms (gathering in groups, voting, bearing arms, etc.), and the Fugitive Slave Act required residents to return runaway slaves to their owners. Slave catchers roamed many areas, hoping to capture slaves and return them to their owners for a reward. This meant slaves had to travel through Illinois discretely, usually under the cover of darkness. They would go from safe house to safe house—a path to freedom that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data website Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>An Illinois freedom trail</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad tourism</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The site focuses on western and southern Illinois sites Quincy, Jacksonville, and Alton, as well as Oakland and Chicago. Note that the site erroneously describes the underground railroad as active after the Civil War. Actually, with the end of the Civil War, and the ratification of the Constitution's Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery in 1865, the Underground Railroad ceased its activities that year.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Illinois Office of Tourism</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Illinois Office of Tourism</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>2020</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Illinois Department of Commerce &amp; Economic Opportunity</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Illinois Department of Commerce &amp; Economic Opportunity</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg image</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>website</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #10</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Alton antislavery heritage tourism Illinois Jacksonville Quincy slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/613e25bd8bdfede19055817d046541fd.jpg f65a1a1b359cf61cbb6e05548afc091f Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A national underground railroad map</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Routes of the underground railroad across the North</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Western Illinois' UGRR routes show prominently in this map, including northeast from Quincy through the Military Tract counties to Princeton, the location of prominent UGRR conductor Owen Lovejoy.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Wilburt Siebert</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4><em>The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom </em></h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1898</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource jpeg photograph Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #9</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>United States</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>New York: Macmillan</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Wikimedia</h4> antislavery Illinois map slavery Underground Railroad Wilbur Siebert https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/d51c548cb30666911e5a761ae8e01974.jpg d9238abedaf45eb7d14b9cb7e288bf90 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Illinois early proslavery counties</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Opposition to the underground railroad</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>A map of Illinois free and slave counties in 1824 showing shaded counties that were favorable to legalizing slavery in Illinois</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>George Smith</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4><em>A history of southern Illinois : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests</em></h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co.</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1912</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #8</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Wikipedia</h4> antislavery black codes Illinois proslavery slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/e7c98126efdf0bca365eed50f49f6b01.jpg c860c4f39e93fdf60c8460b9b5b79b64 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document For sale, a likely negro girl, 16 years of age For further particulars, enquire at this office. Kaskaskia Dec 12, 1826 21-8t Public notice. This day was committed to the custody of the sheriff of Randolph county, State of Illinois, a Runaway, a Negro Man who calls himself Martin Barker, about forty-three years of age about five feet nine inches high, a scar over his right eye, and also one on his right leg above his ankle, his make and appearance active; he states that he once belonged to Lewis Barker, of Pope county, near the Rock-in-Cave but that he is now free. If any person has any legal claim to him, they are requested to exhibit the same, and pay all charges according to law. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data digital image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>"Negroes" for sale</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Opposition to the underground railroad</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Public notices of availability of two African Americans for purchase, a sixteen-year-old girl, and a forty-three-year-old man. Parallel to the Underground Railroad, there existed a "reverse underground railroad," which, as in this item, targeted African Americans in Kaskaskia, Illinois, and other places on the southern and western Illinois borders. State "black codes" required African Americans to provide proof they were not fugitives; those who could not could be sold into slavery.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>NPR Illinois</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>December 12, 1826</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>text</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #7</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Illinois Reporter</em> newspaper antislavery Illinois Illinois Reporter newspaper Kaskaskia slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/29f8302e9a6e194bcb6bbcf150043944.jpg cc531e180e61f012f50bfae807624507 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data digital image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Illinois College's original building</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Beecher Hall, Illinois College</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Beecher Hall, the original building of Illinois College, was completed in 1830. It was named for the college's first president, Dr. Edward Beecher, brother of the abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Illinois College had close ties with the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad from its inception. Its classrooms and residential quarters provided safe places to deplore slavery, strategize means for ending slavery, and to assist freedom seekers passing through Jacksonville. opposed to slavery. Beecher and two college trustees helped found the Illinois Antislavery Society in 1837. Many of the early settlers in the surrounding area, however, were pro-slavery. Newspapers of nearby cities wrote scathing attacks on the college and its staff. Nonetheless, the college staff and many of the students they influenced assisted freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Some were arrested, and all suffered threats and harassment. Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner helped guide three fleeing African American women to freedom in Canada. Samuel Willard, a student, was prosecuted and fined for attempting to free an escaping bondsman. Elijah Lovejoy, the editor of the first abolitionist newspaper in Illinois, was a friend of President Beecher and visited campus. After Lovejoy's murder in 1837, students held a protest on campus. One student speaker was William Herndon, later Abraham Lincoln's law partner.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Illinois College</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>http://jacksonvilleil.org/beecher-hall/</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Jacksonville Area Convention &amp; Visitors Bureau</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1830</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #6</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Edward Beecher Elijah Lovejoy Illinois Illinois College Jacksonville slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/6d2aff0ee5b838fc96127106f618d53f.jpg 88ccf9a8a9b491be7e3716a0d11deab8 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Text Any textual data included in the document Dr. Richard Eells built this home, now located within the Downtown Quincy Historic District, in 1835. Eells built only the front portion of the house as it stands today, four blocks from the Mississippi River. He lived here until his death in 1848. Quincy, Illinois, was the first Underground Railroad station across the border of Missouri—a slave state. An abolitionist, Eells was actively involved in the Underground Railroad. In 1842 he was caught helping an escaped slave, Charley, from Monticello, Missouri. Charley was brought to the Eells house by a freed black, Barryman Barnett, who had spotted Charley swimming across the Mississippi River. While transporting Charley to Quincy's Mission Institute, a safer hiding place, Eells came across a posse looking for Charley. Charley fled, on Eells's advice, and was later found and returned to Missiouri. Eells returned home where he was shortly arrested and charged with harboring and secreting a fugitive slave under the Illinois Criminal Code. Judge Stephen A. Douglas heard the case in April 1843, and fined Eells $400, which he appealed. Meanwhile, Eells became president of the Illinois Anti-Slavery Party in 1843 and was a candidate for the Liberty Party for the presidential election of 1844. He lost his appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, the process of which drained him financially and emotionally. Eells died on a river boat on the Ohio River while on a a trip east to rest. His estate appealed his case to United States Supreme Court, which also upheld the guilt verdict. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data website Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A Quincy station</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Richard Eells House</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Dr. Richard Eells built this home, Quincy's oldest two-story building, now located within its Downtown  Historic District, in 1835, four blocks from the Mississippi River. Quincy, Illinois, was the first Underground Railroad station across the border of Missouri—a slave state. Popular information today credits Eells with helping several hundred enslaved people to freedom, surprising, given his prominence in Quincy, and, indeed, across the antislavery North.  Eells' most celebrated accomplice was a man named Charley, or Charlie, who escaped from a slave owner in Monticello, Missouri in 1842. Barryman Barnett, a free black man, spotted Charley swimming the Mississippi River and brought him to Eells. After attempting to transport Charley to Quincy's Mission Institute, Eells was arrested and charged with harboring a fugitive slave under the Illinois Criminal Code. Judge Stephen A. Douglas heard the case in 1843, and fined Eells $400. Eells appealed the case, but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction. Meanwhile, Eells became president of the Illinois Anti-Slavery Party in 1843 and was a candidate for the Liberty Party for the presidential election of 1844.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Friends of the Dr. Richard Eells House</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/il3.htm</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>U.S. National Park Service</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1835</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #5</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Quincy Richard Eells slavery Underground Railroad