How this project is preserving the local history of the Underground Railroad
There’s no sidestepping it—Kentucky was a slave state. And Northern Kentucky was no exception; the institution of human property was active locally in the Antebellum period, and yet the region’s proximity to the Ohio River, which separated slave states from non-slave states, made it an important stop on the Underground…
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