US comes together to mark Juneteenth after recognizing it as federal holiday
Joshua Glover, who escaped slavery from Missouri in 1852, was captured two years after settling in Racine. When the city’s residents heard that Glover was captured, they traveled to the Milwaukee jail where he was held; abolitionists freed him from his cell “using pickaxes and large pieces of lumber”.
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