Civil War exhibit opens at CMU
Published 7:11 am, Friday, April 15, 2011
MOUNT PLEASANT -- On the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, with the firing upon Fort Sumter, Central Michigan University's Clarke Historical Library has opened an exhibit on Michigan in the pre-war years.
The exhibit is "Moving Toward the Precipice: Michigan in the Years Before the Civil War."
It describes how Michigan residents made their living, how their children grew up, and the religious and political environments in which they participated.
In part of the exhibit, near a copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," museum text deals with opposition in Michigan both to slavery and to voting rights for black men.
The exhibit is scheduled to continue through August.