Mar
16
“Oh, I’m just taking three pigs to market” –Ohio’s Underground Railroad
By the 1820′s, several thousand African Americans had settled in Ohio. Early slave laws discouraged black settlement. In spite of the severe fines and penalties imposed by these laws, Ohioans were quite active in aiding fugitive slaves on their journey north to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad network. A number of small black [...]
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