A Tour on the Underground Railroad Along the Ohio River

by Theiss, Nancy Stearns
ISBN: 9781467143752
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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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Theiss, Nancy Stearns
  • ISBN: 9781467143752
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 176
  • Publication Year: 2020