Allan Pinkerton , born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1819, emigrated to Chicago. He was
America's first "private eye." A man of many contradictions, he was a conservative
who strongly opposed slavery, a very cautious man who risked his life capturing criminals,
a militant labor organizer who suppressed the labor movement, and fought for women's
rights to be detectives.
During his twenty-eight year career as a private detective, Allan Pinkerton and his
agency investigated over a thousand crimes. Pinkerton was involved in many dramas
of the nineteenth century. Work and the Underground Railroad became his life. The
Pinkerton's fed and sheltered fugitives in their own home. Pinkerton was a very moral
man and despised slavery. The crisis over slavery brought the nation to the brink of the
Civil War. The South demanded a guarantee that slavery would continue in the states
where it was already established and permitted to spread to the Midwest and......
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