{"id":17,"date":"2021-08-30T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/historyhelpologyanthrostories\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T19:10:22","slug":"carly-collins-research-pre-civil-war-history-of-cass-county-mi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/2021\/08\/30\/carly-collins-research-pre-civil-war-history-of-cass-county-mi\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Collins&#8217; Research: Pre-Civil War History of Cass County, MI"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/letterstoclio\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302-690x518.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302-980x735.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/files\/2021\/08\/Carly-Collins-302.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;My research project focused on a rural, southwestern Michigan region called Cass County, which has a unique pre-Civil War history. Many Cass County Quakers were Underground Railroad station masters, which led to a slave raid by Kentucky slave owners, the establishment of a fugitive slave settlement called Ramptown, and has since celebrated its successful abolition movements with a local historical society\u2019s annual summer festival called Underground Railroad Days. <br \/><br \/>I chose this topic because my family used to own a small lake house in the area, where we frequently drove by a colorful mural depicting the slave raid. This sparked my interest in learning about Cass County\u2019s history and how it connects to the larger, national pre-Civil War history. I hope to potentially make my project into a thesis where I would plan to interview the historical society members and other Cass County residents.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My research project focused on a rural, southwestern Michigan region called Cass County, which has a unique pre-Civil War history. Many Cass County Quakers were Underground Railroad station masters, which led to a slave raid by Kentucky slave owners, the establishment of a fugitive slave settlement called Ramptown, and has since celebrated its successful abolition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9195962,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[463375,463378,463379,221683,245911,463377],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-hst302","tag-michigan","tag-pre-civil-war","tag-slavery","tag-student-research","tag-us","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9195962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/lifeHACs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}