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During the 1850s, Congress had resisted a demand for Arizona statehood because of a well-grounded fear that it would become a slave state. According to Marshall Trimble, the official historian of Arizona, the Arizona Organic Act can be traced to the Northwest Ordinance. Business people from Ohio had silver mining interests in the Arizona ...
It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end slavery in the United States. The list of validated or authenticated Underground Railroad and Network to Freedom sites is sorted within state or province, by location.
By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each. By the time of Missouri Compromise of 1820, the dividing line between the slave and free states was called the Mason-Dixon line (between Maryland and Pennsylvania), with its westward extension being the Ohio River.
After Pennsylvania abolished slavery in 1781, the east–west part of this line and the Ohio River became a border between slave and free states, [7] with Delaware [8] retaining slavery until the 13th Amendment was ratified in 1865.
View of the Ohio River from near Stephensport, Kentucky (1988) Stone, his nephew Howard Stone, and three other whites were killed on the Ohio River in 1826 by the people he was trafficking south. [22] The news report about his murder, now known as the 1826 Ohio River slave revolt, read as follows: [23]
The John P. Parker House is a historic house museum at 300 North Front Street in Ripley, Ohio.It was home to former slave and inventor John P. Parker (1827–1900) from 1853 to his death in 1900.
Its location recognizes the significant role of Cincinnati in the history of the Underground Railroad, as thousands of slaves escaped to freedom by crossing the Ohio River from the southern slave states. Many found refuge in the city, some staying there temporarily before heading north to gain freedom in Canada.
Breckenridge, Burrows and Meachum were arrested. Prior to this escape attempt, Mary Meachum and her husband John, a former slave, were agents on the Underground Railroad and helped other slaves escape from slavery crossing the Mississippi River. [73] Enslaved people living near rivers and the Chesapeake Bay escaped from slavery using canoes and ...