Inciting love in 19th-century Wisconsin archives
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara’s forthcoming article for the Journal of the Early Republic, “Black Love and Joy: The Pleasure of Correspondence in early Wisconsin, 1850 – 1857”, explores the letters of Caroline Shepard, a free Black woman in southwest Wisconsin, and her aunt, Caroline Milford/Mason, writing from Virginia between 1850 and 1857. Despite 900 miles of …