{"id":18115,"date":"2025-09-10T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=18115"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:55:14","slug":"north-of-slavery-the-matson-slave-trial-presentation","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/calendar\/18115-north-of-slavery-the-matson-slave-trial-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"North of Slavery: The Matson Slave Trial Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-tribe_events pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>This Saturday, September 13, historian Samuel Wheeler will discuss the critical role that the Illinois Supreme Court played in ensuring Illinois developed as a free state, during a presentation of <strong>North of Slavery: The Matson Slave Trial.\u00a0 <\/strong>At 2:00 pm in the <em>Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site<\/em> Auditorium, Wheeler will explore why the future Great Emancipator was on the wrong side of history in this case.<\/p>\n<p>In 1845, Kentucky slaveowner Robert Matson brought several of his enslaved people to Illinois, where he put them to work on his farm in Coles County.\u00a0 Two years later an enslaved woman named Jane Bryant fled the farm with her four children.\u00a0 Matson turned to the judicial system in Illinois, hiring attorney Abraham Lincoln to help him reclaim his human property.\u00a0 The ensuing freedom suit reveals the complexity of the institution of slavery, its implications for the \u201cfree state\u201d of Illinois, and the role the institution played in the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site<\/em>\u00a0is located at 402 South Lincoln Highway Road, Lerna, IL\u00a0 62440.\u00a0 For more information call 217-345-1845, or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolnlogcabin.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lincolnlogcabin.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, September 13, historian Samuel Wheeler will discuss the critical role that the Illinois Supreme Court played in ensuring Illinois developed as a free state, during a presentation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[40],"class_list":["post-18115","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-community-calendar","cat_community-calendar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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