The story of the Escape of the 28 is featured in an episode of Bizarre Foods currently airing on the Travel Channel. Check the Travel Channel website for showings of “Underground Railroad” episode or watch it on You Tube. Many local and regional historians and food experts appear in the show–the Wainscotts, Kristin Kitchen, Carl
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The film by Charles Campbell, All Or Nothin’, which is a dramatization of the Escape of the 28 from Boone County Ky, through College Hill, en route to Canada, was inspired by our research on the Escape of the 28. Local actors from the Cincinnati Black Theater Company and others were cast in the film that was
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Local historian and colleague in Hamilton Avenue Road to Freedom committee talks with Cincinnati People about Wesleyan Cemetery.
Jim Crow’s legacy has many faces. In this case, as the article For the Forgotten African-American Dead (Brian Palmer, 7 Jan 2017, NY Times) illustrates, it’s in the obliteration of Black history – the history of heroic participation by black soldiers in the Civil War, the history of esteemed forebears – by the neglect of
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In the era of the Underground Railroad, enslaved people of color took charge of emancipating themselves, and white abolitionists figured out ways to assist. It took later historians like Larry Gara and Keith Griffler to deconstruct the myth that set white people up as the conductors and even originators of the northward movement of freedom
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Recently, documents have been found in the Georgetown University archives that show the 1838 transaction of 272 enslaved people from the Jesuits’ Maryland plantation to former Louisiana governor (later U.S. Congressman) Henry Johnson and his associate Jesse Beatty. While these families were promised that they would stay together and to be able to practice their religion, all these promises
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I had the pleasure of visiting Plymouth Church in Brooklyn New York. Through their displays, signage and art, I learned about its most famous minister–Henry Ward Beecher. Plymouth Church is doing a great job of keeping its abolitionist history alive. Henry Ward Beecher was born on June 24, 1813 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of
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Two free events for Black History Month, one through Cincinnati City Parks and the other through Cincinnati Public Library. See details below. Ravine to Freedom (Free Public Program) Cincinnati Parks’ LaBoiteaux Woods Nature Preserve, 5400 Lanius Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45224 Saturday, February 20, 2016, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. All Aboard! Step back in time
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One inspiration we can take from the history of the Underground Railroad is that it holds up for us a model of Black and White people “working together for a just cause.” Dr. Eric Foner, speaking yesterday at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, reminded us of this important gift from antebellum activists to people
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Thanks to the hard work of Hamilton Avenue Road to Freedom members Kathy Dahl and Stephanie Sunderland, two of the Underground Railroad related-sites that were accepted into the National Park Service’s Network To Freedom earlier this year now have markers. The sites are: Wesleyan Cemetery, which played a role in the Escape of the 28, and also in recognition
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