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Some tidbits from the Summer 2024 Journal of the ISHS
A landmark court case spawned by a 1930s sit-down strike at an Illinois manufacturing plant, an admirable but flawed effort to transcend racial and ethnic divides in East St. Louis in the years after World War One, and an interesting history of the early Illinois “salt industry,” entwined with slavery and frontier entrepreneurship are featured in the latest edition of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.
“Production and Labor in the Gallatin County Salines, 1803-1850,” by James Cornelius explains the excitement about rights to mining salt and how it eventually created sanctioned slavery in a free state. This anomaly would pester efforts to make Illinois a state and almost lead to a constitutional change allowing slavery.
Distinguished scholar and author James R. Barrett shares his insights on writing history and the centrality of Illinois and Chicago to significant historical problems.