"We said Ohio would not stand.  That fugitives could not be taken from our land.  We'd from the Union surely withdraw.  Unless they'd pass a better law.  So, another way folks said was right. To help the oppressed escape by night.  For when they got to Canada's shore. They would be free forever more.  This plan they called the Underground I wondered oft where it was found."  Published in "Sidney Daily News," 1953 issue.


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LOCAL HISTORY
The Continent
Portuguese Investigate Africa
The Origins of Slavery
Capture/Conditioning of Slaves
Sea Voyage
Business of Slavery
Banning of Slave Imports

SLAVERY IN OHIO
Ohio as a 'Non-Slave' State
Shelby County's First Blacks
Missouri Compromise/1820
Anti-Slavery Efforts
Underground Railroad
Fugitive Slave Laws
Life as a Slave

RANDOLPH SLAVES
John Randolph and His Slaves
Carthagena
Randolph Slaves Come to Ohio
Randolph Slave Reunions
CIVIL WAR
1861-1865
Black Shelby Countians Serve Their Country
End of the Civil War

WORLD WAR I

1930s TO 1960s

ORGANIZATIONS
Black Church
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Ku Klux Klan
National Assn. for Advancement of Colored People
Sidney Schools

IMPORTANT PLACES
Rossville
Rankin House
Rumley

IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Alfred Artis
John Brown
James Daniel
Frederick Douglass
Helen and Isaac Gilmore
Ida Haslup Goode
James P. Humphrey
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Randolph
Randolph Slaves
Buddie Shang
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Sojourner Truth

Harriet Tubman

BIBLIOGRAPHY LINKS

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