1 10 24 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/8aa521f32d17b260cdc1cd9c40c26e86.jpg f290232d1d9724faffd9ebd5839d2078 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 <strong>stone monument</strong> 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 Susan "Aunt Sukey" Richardson gravestone Subject The topic of the resource <strong>African American agents in the Underground Railroad</strong> Description An account of the resource <strong>In 1842, indentured servant Susan “Sukey” Richardson, her three children, and another woman, Hannah Morrison, fled north from Sparta, Illinois, assisted by William Hayes, a neighbor of Richardson’s master, Andrew Borders. Borders had brought Richardson as a slave from Virginia. Hayes was inspired by opposition to slavery of his church, the Covenanters. He, Hannah, and the Richardsons traveled by foot and steamboat to Farmington, but were caught and jailed in Galesburg, before its antislavery committee freed them. Sukey and Hannah remained free, but Borders kidnapped Sukey's children and returned to his farm; the family never reunited. Subsequently, Sukey married a free black man named Henry Van Allen. They had three children together, but in the early 1850s he disappeared, leaving her with their three children. Sukey then married Thomas Richardson, a widower who had also escaped on the Underground Railroad. She operated an Underground Railroad safe house, and helped found the Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church, the oldest African American Church in Knox County. She died in 1904 and is buried in Galesburg's Hope Cemetery. </strong> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <strong>Friends of Hope Cemetery</strong> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <strong>Gravestone added to the Richardson gravesite in 2004</strong> Type The nature or genre of the resource <strong>image</strong> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <strong>WIUGRR #19</strong> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <strong>Illinois, United States</strong> Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church antislavery Galesburg Illinois Susan Sukey Richardson Underground Railroad William Hayes 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/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/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/572a4906518f3f2c54580ef519a1e7de.jpg 7def5b06a7695b8941fe24c369215f1f 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 Western Illinois Men Pardoned for Work on Underground Railroad By SEAN CRAWFORD • DEC 31, 2014 Illinois' Governor has posthumously pardoned three men for their work with the Underground Railroad. The men all lived in west central Illinois and were convicted more than 170 years ago based on laws that prohibited helping runaway slaves. Those laws remained in place even after Illinois abolished slavery in 1824. The Richard Eells House in Quincy CREDIT THE FRIENDS OF DR. RICHARD EELLS HOUSE Dr. Richard Eells was from Quincy. He agreed to help a fugitive slave get to an Underground Railroad site but the slave was caught and Eells arrested. He was convicted and fined, but remained a leader in the abolitionist movement and helped hundreds of other enslaved African Americans escape to freedom. Governor Pat Quinn also pardoned Julius Willard and his son Samuel. They helped a woman reach the Underground Railroad from their Jacksonville home. The Willard's were also convicted and fined. 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 posthumous pardon</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Official pardon of three conductors</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Illinois Governor Pat Quinn pardoned Richard Eells of Quincy and Julius and Samuel Willard of Jacksonville, who in 1843 were convicted of aiding fugitive slaves.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>TriStates Public Radio</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://www.tspr.org/post/western-illinois-men-pardoned-work-underground-railroad</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>TriStates Public Radio</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>December 31, 2014</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>TriStates Public Radio, Illinois Office of the Governor, Friends of Dr. Richard Eells House</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>no rights 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, image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #2</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 Jacksonville Julius Willard Pat Quinn Quincy Richard Eells Samuel Willard 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/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/6aeca9cda441da282a382b0a21eb6bd3.jpg 7d3dfe25659195036f37829d71d8fdf6 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>printed color map</h4> Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image <h4>5' x 3'</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 <h3>WIUGRR Map</h3> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad maps</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>A map of the sites of the Underground Railroad in Western Illinois, documentable based on records surviving as of 2005</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Owen Muelder</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>January 2005</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>BGPatterson</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Owen Muelder, Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College</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>map</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR22</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 Knox College maps 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/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