2 10 24 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/0ded75a22cfdf5e45c699e58beeef63c.jpg 36fb6a123aa39f4e20de9c79c4166201 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 ILLINOIS 1. Owen Lovejoy House--Princeton 2. John Hossack House--Ottawa 3. Dr. Richard Eells House--Quincy 4. Beecher Hall--Jacksonville 5. Rutherford House -- Oakland Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data text, 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 U.S. federal list of Illinois sites</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Owen Lovejoy House--Princeton; John Hossack House--Ottawa; Dr. Richard Eells House--Quincy; Beecher Hall--Jacksonville; Rutherford House -- Oakland</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The U.S. National Park Service's "Aboard the Underground Railroad" list of recognized Illinois sites</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>U.S. National Park Service Department of the Interior</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>U.S. National Park Service Department of the Interior</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>Unknown</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>The National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior; the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers; the National Register and National Historic Landmarks</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>website</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #4</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 Beecher Hall heritage tourism Illinois Jacksonville John Hossack House Oakland Ottawa Owen Lovejoy House Princeton Quincy Richard Eells House Rutherford House slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/43c62f60457b5e52f7cb3fb2ef506304.jpg 5e5c8be4d18e8f3e63f44c9e96a3178d 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 Knox College heritage exhibition label Subject The topic of the resource George Washington Gale, City of Galesburg 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 <h3><strong>Committed to Equality<br />George Washington Gale, a Presbyterian minister from New York State, founded Knox College to educate young men to preach the Gospel. The college was among the first institutions in the United States open to all men and women regardless of their racial background. Knox's founders hoped to make education accessible to students of even the most limited financial means through manual labor and the sale of thousands of acres of land to new settlers.<br />Abolition City <br />The village and the college founded by George Washington Gale in the 1830s were home to uncompromising abolitionists and Underground Railroad activists who earned both the community and the college a notorious reputation. Gale and those who followed him established a town and a college that would support the Underground Railroad, welcome African American students, and established a legacy of activism on the Illinois prairie.</strong></h3> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data <h3><strong>exhibition label</strong></h3> 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>Abolition City</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h3><strong>Underground Railroad tourism</strong></h3> Description An account of the resource <h3><strong>This nickname of Galesburg appears in a permanent exhibition of Knox College's founding and first decades in the era of the Civil War, in the Whitcomb Heritage Center, third floor of Knox College's Alumni Hall. </strong></h3> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h3><strong>Rhodesworks and Proto Productions</strong></h3> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h3><strong>Knox College</strong></h3> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h3><strong>2014</strong></h3> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h3><strong>Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College</strong></h3> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h3><strong>Knox College</strong></h3> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h3><strong>jpeg image</strong></h3> Language A language of the resource <h3><strong>English</strong></h3> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h3><strong>WIUGRR #20</strong></h3> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h3><strong>Illinois, United States</strong></h3> antislavery Galesburg George Washington Gale heritage tourism Illinois Knox College 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/1af1593b19e2e9a0130d61c64173e7dc.jpg d837b03eb1d7c971a5eafcd5c5f92f48 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 <h4>jpeg photo</h4> 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 Unmarked McDonough County Station </h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad site</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>This image shows the modern home and farm buildings on the location of a UGRR station near Macomb, Illinois, "operated" by Harmon Allison, who settled there with his wife Beulah around 1854, once his father William built it. Beulah Brown Allison moved to Macomb from Quincy, where her family were UGRR operators. The site of the Harmon homestead remains highly rural, and the orientation of the image is from the southwest, thus suggesting something of the site's possible appearance to fugitives arriving from the direction of Quincy, Illinois.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Tim Roberts</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1854-1865</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>None asserted</h4> Relation A related resource <h4>John Hallwas, <em>McDonough County Historic Sites,</em> Arcadia Publishing, 2003</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 #15</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 Harmon Allison Illinois Military Tract Macomb McDonough County slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/5467e73c953f1cc3ea629e003b9f4952.png d19e9167b530e90cd007d728f9d76ddd 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 The majority of McDonough County settlers were from the upland South, but others came as well, so there was intense political conflict before and during the Civil War. The Underground Railroad operated in McDonough County, but Lincoln also visited the town twice and spoke at the courthouse. Also, prominent businessman William H. Randolph, a Lincoln supporter who served as Deputy Provost Marshal, to enforce the draft, was murdered at Blandinsville in 1864—the most notable, and controversial, county murder of the century. However, about 2,800 men from the county served in the Civil War, and more than 600 were killed, so the town became noted for its huge Decoration Day commemorations after the war. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data text 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>City of Macomb website</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>The underground railroad in McDonough County</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Part of the "History and Culture" of Macomb, Illinois</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>City of Macomb, Illinois</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://cityofmacomb.com/history-and-culture/</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>City of Macomb, Illinois</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>Website developed in 2017</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>City of Macomb, Archives and Special Collections of Western Illinois University, and the McDonough County Historical Society</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> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #1</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 heritage tourism Illinois Macomb 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/6a72d8a937dd366fe1883b459598c614.jpg ceea08e447140515feaf2f7b943670d0 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 jpeg 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>Hamilton Memorial School</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad tourism and heritage</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Site of the Hamilton Primary School of Otterville, originally built in 1835 and rebuilt in 1873. The school was founded by physician and former slave owner Silas Hamilton. It is the alma mater of George Washington, Hamilton's manumitted slave and a likely underground railroad operator. </h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Silas Hamilton</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Friends of the Hamilton Primary School</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1835</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Otter Creek Historical Society</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Hamilton Memorial Association</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 #16</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> Relation A related resource <h4>Eugene Baldwin, "Little school on the prairie: Preserving Otterville history," <em>Alton Telegraph</em>, April 18, 2017</h4> antislavery Hamilton School Illinois Jersey County Otterville 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/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/7b5509c7ea81e23517346c6c7c9ff61f.jpg 98d8981172b4a8059eb6543479424aff 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 <h5>Painting</h5> 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>Old Charley painting</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>African American agents in the Underground Railroad</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 #18</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> Description An account of the resource <h4>An 1856 painting of a man, Charley and a girl, Abigail Peck. Charley allegedly escaped slavery in Lewis County, Missouri in 1842 and was either caught in Quincy, Illinois and returned to bondage, or became a conductor, helping others to freedom on multiple trips between eastern Missouri and Chicagoland. In 2018 the Lombard Historical Society produced research indicating Charley resided with the Sheldon Peck family of Lombard in the 1850s before, possibly, enlisting in the U.S. military during the Civil War. Various oral histories about Charley, though none by him or other African Americans, circulated in Quincy and in McDonough County. One account attributed his assistance to other escaped slaves to his bitterness at learning of his master's sale of his wife while he was a fugitive. </h4> <h4></h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Lombard Historical Society</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Lombard Historical Society</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>June 17, 2020</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Sandy Schroeder</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Lombard Historical Society</h4> antislavery Illinois Lombard Sheldon Peck slavery Underground Railroad