And it's a very fitting location since the Ohio River – unofficially – split the southern slave states and northern free states once Pennsylvania abolished slavery. Many slaves actually ...
“Why did I have to travel all the way to Cincinnati, Ohio, to learn East Tennessee history?” I asked myself while touring the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on the northern banks ...
(WKRC) — The Boone Conservancy has acquired 350 acres of land along the Ohio River in Petersburg ... and the burial ground of former slaves.