A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River

A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 187
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ISBN-10 : 9781439668948
ISBN-13 : 1439668949
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Book Synopsis A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River by : Nancy Stearns Theiss

Download or read book A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River written by Nancy Stearns Theiss and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana and Ohio. The river beckoned fugitive slave Henry Bibb onto a steamboat at Madison, Indiana, headed to Cincinnati, where he discovered the Underground Railroad. Upriver from Cincinnati, a lantern signal high on a hill from the Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio, stirred others to flee for freedom. These stories and more along the borderland of the Ohio River also served as the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which became an inspiration of human resistance. Author Nancy Theiss, PhD, takes readers on a tour through American history to places of courage and sacrifice.


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