The Role of Washington County, Ohio in the Success of the Underground R

The place of Washington County, Ohio in the Success of the Underground rail lineGone, gone, --sold and goneTo the rice-swamps dank and lone,From Virginias hills and waters, --Woe is me, my stolen daughters(Whittier in Hamilton, pg. 105)Families torn apart, humans sold on auctioneer blocks, using humans for animal labor. These tragedies along with the words of the Quaker poet prat Whiittier are just the beginning when trying to explain the motivation for abolitionists fate to free slaves. The Underground Railroad was a runway to safety and granting immunity for thousands of slaves before the Civil War. Escaping from the chains, confinement and abuse of slavery was no low-cal task and it took the cooperation of galore(postnominal) people to make escape possible. The anti-slavery movement created this path to guide and protect escaped slaves on their way to Canada, the freedom land. some slaves traveled through Ohio on their journey and were assisted by Ohio residents. My ex plore paper will answer the question What role did Washington County, Ohio, work in the success of the Underground Railroad? Limitations and DelimitationsWhile there were many states, slaves and abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad, certain restrictions must be displace on the research. The research in this paper will only cross four stations and their conductors from Washington County, Ohio. The paper will take you on a trip through this county from a slaves point of view. Although the history and birth of slavery will non be covered in this paper, the feelings and thoughts of the slaves on their journeys will be depicted.Fugitive slaves, or runaway slaves, were fleeing a life story of hardship and confinement for a life of h... ...hat even bloodhounds will not scent out (Cosner, pg. 85).WORKS CITEDHamilton, Virginia. Many Thousand Gone . parvenu York Scholastic, Inc, 1993.Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad . innovative York Prentice Hall, 1982.Cos ner, Sharon. The Underground Railroad . New York Venture, 1991.DuBois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk . New York Penguin Books, 1989.Burke, Henry R. Journeys on the Underground Railroad . Marietta, OH The Underground Railroad Research Center, 1995.Douglas, Fredrick. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas, An American striver . New York Penguin Classics, 1986.Underground Railroad. World Book encyclopedia . 1992 ed.Underground Railroad. Encyclopedia Americana . 1972 ed.Burke, Henry R. Personal Interview. 22 October 1996.Burke, Henry R. E-mail to Author. 18 November 1996.