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| George Sisk | purchased the Crenshaw house in 1906, charged admission for visitors |
| Uncle Bob | He said he was kept as a stud slave at Hickory Hill, chosen for his size and intelligence, to breed with the women, may have fathered 300 children. |
| Elijah Dimmick | was an abolitionist who moved to Alton in 1840, he hid runaway slaves in a room behind the kitchen with no windows. |
| Priscilla Baltimore | preached to slaves, helped ferry fugitive slaves and established a community of free blacks in Illinois near East St. Louis. |
| Black Codes | A series of laws, passed in 1819, intending to regulate the lives of slaves and free blacks. |
| John Crenshaw | made his fortune from the salt mines in Southern Illinois and may have been involved in kidnapping free blacks or selling servitude contracts. |
| Thaddeus Hurlbut | was Elijah Lovejoy’s friend and associate editor of the Alton Observer who hid runaway slaves in a large basement. |
| Edward Coles | His opponents got him arrested for not paying bonds to Madison County when he freed his slaves, in violation of a law passed one month before he arrived. |
| Silas Hamilton | tried to create a model plantation where slaves were treated humanely and left money for the construction of a school in Jersey County when he died. |
| Old Slave House | Legends say it was used to hide formerly free slaves who were taken back to the South and that it was used as a “breeding farm” for slaves. AKA Hickory Hill |
| Brooklyn | a destination for runaway slaves near East St. Louis. |
| Elijah Lovejoy | the first white man killed over the issue of slavery in Alton in 1837, protecting one of his presses. |
| John Beveridge | Prior to becoming governor, he hid slaves in a straw stack room. |
| Lyman Trumball | He represented two slaves in suing for their freedom, and as a senator, he proposed a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery in the U.S. |
| Joseph Barquet | tried to argue against the Black Codes by saying it would lead to a mixing of the races. |
