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Cincinnati, Louisville, and the UGRR

March 30, 2020 by leslie1863


National Park Service: Visit Underground Railroad Locations

The Filson Historical Society founded in 1884 “is a privately-supported historical society dedicated to preserving the history of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley Region.”

“Cincinnati’s Role in the Underground Railroad” (3:21) YouTube, March 1, 2007
A video by the National Underground Freedom Center explains how geography, Margaret Garner, the presence of Lane Seminary, and the activity of prominent abolitionists including Harriet Beecher Stowe shaped history.

Gary Pyles. “Louisville Slavery” (2:35) YouTube, March 4, 2013
Interviews with scholars describe this city’s slave trade along the Ohio River as well as the flight to freedom across this river.

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged maps, UGRR, YouTube | 2 Comments

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  1. on March 30, 2020 at 5:11 pm Maryann Stoner Bell

    It looks like your map left out a peak area in South Central Pennsylvania. An area outside of a little town in Mercersburg, Pa. called “Little Africa” harbored hundreds of former slaves. Ira Brown who wrote The Negro History of Pa. wrote about hundreds fleeing from the area when the cofererates came through. Charles Blockson also wrote about the Mercersburg area in his Underground Railroad” books.

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    • on March 31, 2020 at 11:43 pm leslie1863

      Hi, Maryann — Thanks for your comment. This map shows locations on the National Park Service’s “Network to Freedom.” Information about the initiative and how to nominate a site is available at its homepage https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm.

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  • While researching the lives of my great-great-grandfather Edward R. Pitt and his brother William Thomas Pitt of Norfolk County, Virginia, I found fascinating (and sometimes disturbing) details about the civilian and military experiences of those who served in the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry.

    The regiment included free men, freedmen, freedom-seekers and white officers from the United States and abroad.  It was organized at Camp Hamilton, Virginia in 1863, attached to Fortress Monroe, Virginia in 1864, and mustered out at Brazos Santiago, Texas in 1866.

    Tell the story. Expand the legacy.

    Leslie Anderson, MSLS

    Copyright © Leslie Anderson. All Rights Reserved.

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