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Title
Underground
Railroad
station
back
porch
Subject
Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Cincinnati (Ohio)--History
Underground Railroad--Ohio
Time Period
1930s
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
Caption
reads
"
Opening
in
back
porch
of
house
,
located
at
408
East
Sixth
Street
,
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
,
where
slaves
are
said
to have been
stored
awaiting
shipment
during
slavery
days
.
Photo
by
Writers
'
Projects
.
District
#2
.
11-12-36
". The
Underground
Railroad
was a
system
of
safe
houses
and
hiding
places
that
helped
runaway
slaves
escape
to
freedom
in
Canada
,
Mexico
, and
elsewhere
outside
of the
United
States
.
White
and
African-American
"
conductors
"
served
as
guides
from
place
to
place
for
runaway
slaves
.
It
remains
unclear
when
the
Underground
Railroad
began
, but
members
of the
Society
of
Friends
,
who
were also
known
as the
Quakers
, were
actively
assisting
runaway
slaves
as
early
as the
1780s
.
Some
people
living
in
Ohio
began
to
help
runaways
by the
1810s
.
Several
prominent
abolitionists
were from
Ohio
and they
played
a
vital
role
in the
Underground
Railroad
.
Beginning
in the
late
1840s
,
Levi
Coffin
, a
resident
of
Cincinnati
,
helped
more
than
three
thousand
slaves
escape
from their
masters
and
gain
their
freedom
in
Canada
.
Coffin's
work
caused
his
fellow
abolitionists
to
nickname
him the "
president
of the
Underground
Railroad.
" In
Ripley
,
Presbyterian
minister
John
Rankin
served
as a
conductor
and
opened
his
home
to
African
Americans
seeking
freedom
. His
home
stood
on a
three
hundred-foot
high
hill
that
overlooked
the
Ohio
River
.
Rankin
would
signal
runaway
slaves
in
Kentucky
with a
lantern
and
let
them
know
when
it
was
safe
for them to
cross
the
Ohio
River
. He
provided
the
runaways
with
shelter
and
kept
them
hidden
until
it
was
safe
to
travel
further
north
.
John
Parker
,
Rankin's
neighbor
,
brought
hundreds
of
runaway
slaves
across
the
Ohio
River
in a
boat
. These
men
and
many
other
people
risked
their
lives
to
assist
African
Americans
in their
flight
to
freedom
.
Once
they
arrived
in
Ohio
,
some
runaway
slaves
who
decided
to
remain
in the
state
. They
usually
settled
in
neighborhoods
with
other
African
Americans
.
Many
runaway
slaves
continued
on to
Canada
. At
least
eight
cities
,
including
Ashtabula
,
Painesville
,
Cleveland
,
Sandusky
,
Toledo
,
Huron
,
Lorain
, and
Conneaut
,
along
Lake
Erie
served
as
starting
points
to
transport
the
former
slaves
to
freedom
in
Canada
.
Historian
Wilbur
Siebert
believes
approximately
three
thousand
miles
of
Underground
Railroad
trails
existed
in
Ohio
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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File Name
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Image Height
3235
Image Width
4011
File Size
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Display File Type
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Format
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Date created
2010-03-17
Date modified
2010-04-16
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