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The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad.Opened in 2004, the center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people".
Carl Westmoreland. Carl B. Westmoreland (March 8, 1937 – March 10, 2022) was an American community organizer, preservationist, and senior historian at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. [1] In 1967, he was one of the founding members of the Mount Auburn Good Housing Foundation, with money provided by private donations. [2]
S. St. James AME Zion Church (Ithaca, New York) St. John's Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Schuylkill Friends Meeting House. Second Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan) Sennett Federated Church and Parsonage.
Cincinnati Christian University (CCU) was a private Christian university in Cincinnati, Ohio. CCU was supported by the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, which are part of the Restoration Movement. The university was accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), it was placed on "show-cause" status in the summer of 2019 and given ...
Charles T. Webber, The Underground Railroad, 1893, Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati was an important stop for the Underground Railroad in pre-Civil War times. It bordered a southern slave state, Kentucky, and is often mentioned as a destination for many people escaping the bonds of slavery. There are many harrowing stories involving ...
Levi Coffin (October 28, 1798 – September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, Republican, abolitionist, farmer, businessman and humanitarian. An active leader of the Underground Railroad in Indiana and Ohio, some unofficially called Coffin the "President of the Underground Railroad," estimating that three thousand fugitive slaves passed through his care.
The Underground Railroad in Indiana was part of a larger, unofficial, and loosely-connected network of groups and individuals who aided and facilitated the escape of runaway slaves from the southern United States. The network in Indiana gradually evolved in the 1830s and 1840s, reached its peak during the 1850s, and continued until slavery was ...
The Underground Railroad was used by freedom seekers from slavery in the United States and was generally an organized network of secret routes and safe houses. [ 1 ] Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery as early as the 16th century and many of their escapes were unaided, [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] but the network of safe houses ...