Hey, Joy? As a born-and-bred Wisconsinite, MY state has a LONG history of freeing and assisting slaves of ALL colors, ya dumb bunny!
Here. I’ll do your HOMEWORK for you!
“The Second Continental Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 as a way to establish new states in territory the United States had gained northwest of the Ohio River after the Revolutionary War. It authorized a provisional territorial government, provided for the creation of new governments within those territories, created a bill of rights for residents and prohibited slavery, and created a way to survey land and sell it to new settlers.
It was a “unique colonial structure” that the Wisconsin Supreme Court that would use in 1854 to defy a federal law requiring northern states to cooperate with federal law-enforcement officials in returning escaped slaves to their southern holders, Ranney said.”
https://www.wiscontext.org/how-5-wisconsin-supreme-court-cases-forged-states-legal-order
Black Suffrage: Slavery, citizenship, and securing the right to vote in Wisconsin
“Wisconsin entered the Union as a free state in 1848, and has its share of associations with the abolitionist movement — the state Supreme Court, in what is among its most significant decisions, declared the federal Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional in 1854, and opposition to slavery drove the genesis of the Republican Party in Ripon the same year.”
Doesn’t matter. She would think it was just covering for white supremacy. 🙄
The trouble with this claim is that the US Constitution required the return of escaped slaves. If a state is a member of the US Federal Union, they have to obey constitutional law.
The section of the us Constitution which required the return of escaped slaves is Article IV, section 2.