did you know this about WI. history!!

In the spring of 1852, Joshua Glover escaped from slavery and made his way north from Missouri to Wisconsin, where he found work in Racine. On March 11, 1854, his owner, Bennami Garland, tracked him down and arrested Glover under the Fugitive Slave Law. The next night, abolitionists led by Sherman Booth famously broke into the jail and helped Glover escape to Canada. Glover's escape helped to stir-up the abolitionist movement in Wisconsin and led Wisconsin to become the only state in country to declare the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional.