{"id":3618,"date":"2023-06-28T15:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/?p=3618"},"modified":"2023-08-05T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T20:46:46","slug":"images-of-america-cincinnatis-underground-railroad-by-richard-cooper-and-eric-jackson-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/images-of-america-cincinnatis-underground-railroad-by-richard-cooper-and-eric-jackson-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of America: Cincinnati&#8217;s Underground Railroad by Richard Cooper and Eric Jackson (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 2014, <em>Images of America: Cincinnati\u2019s Underground Railroad<\/em> by Richard Cooper and Eric R. Jackson contains dozens of portraits of prominent abolitionists and photographs of locations which were useful to freedom-seekers.\u00a0 The book offers a useful c<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">hronological image map <\/span>of historical events through the Civil War era.\u00a0 There are several profiles of more well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass,\u00a0and William Lloyd Garrison.\u00a0 In addition, <em>Images of America<\/em> also highlights more obscure abolitionists, such as Reverend John G. Fee (who was \u201ceventually disowned\u201d by his family for harboring \u201cradical antislavery opinions\u201d), James Birney (a Princeton alumnus who \u201cfounded the abolitionist newspaper <em>The Philanthropist<\/em> in 1836\u201d), and Anna Donaldson (who worked against slavery alongside her sons).<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cstampede\u201d does not appear in this book.\u00a0 Instead, <em>Cincinnati\u2019s Underground Railroad<\/em> describes various types of escapes and the support systems which aided them.\u00a0 According to the authors, for example, \u201cThe city\u2019s emerging steamboat industry granted employment opportunities for African Americans and provided a way to transport black Americans escaping from the South to the North without detection.\u201d<sup>2 <\/sup><sup>\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The authors note that some freedom-seekers \u201ctravel(ed) at night or hid(&#8211;) aboard sailing vessels as well as in safe-houses\u2026\u00a0 Those who were lucky enough to escape concealed themselves, used various disguises, obtained free papers, and traveled the back roads to gain their freedom\u201d, and \u201cOn foot, runaways seldom traveled more than 10 to 15 miles per night.\u00a0 Another way\u2026was through the use of various creeks and small streams that fed into a larger waterway, especially <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">in the northern Kentucky and southwest Ohio regions.\u201d<\/span><sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Co-author Richard Cooper provides several primary-source photographs of monuments or <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">buildings connected to the Underground Railroad or Civil War, or which concern individual Black people and their accomplishments.\u00a0 His <\/span>images of the Black Brigade Monument (which honors an all-Black \u201cmilitary unit organized during the Civil War to protect the city from being attacked by the Confederates\u201d), Father Wallace Shelton\u2019s gravesite in Union Baptist Cemetery (\u201cwhich contains the remains of\u2026a number of African American Civil War veterans\u201d and \u201cis the oldest Baptist African American cemetery in the city\u201d), and a statue of James Bradley (who was \u201cthe first African American student at Oberlin College\u201d) are originals.<sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[1] Cooper and Jackson, <em>Images of America: Cincinnati\u2019s Underground Railroad, <\/em>(Arcadia Publishing in, 2014), 46; 50; 59.<\/p>\n<p>[2] Cooper and Jackson, 36.<\/p>\n<p>[3] Cooper and Jackson, 76; 77.<\/p>\n<p>[4] Cooper and Jackson, 47; 173; 192.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 2014, Images of America: Cincinnati\u2019s Underground Railroad by Richard Cooper and Eric R. 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