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Danger Along the Ohio
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Patricia Willis
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-09 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the Shawnee
Along the Ohio River
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: Robert Schrage
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-07-26 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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The Ohio River is not only a river of scenery and beauty, but also one of opportunity. It is a river of journey and exploration; a river of dreams, both persona
Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River, A
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Nancy Stearns Theiss
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana and Ohio. The
River Jordan
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Joe William Trotter
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03-19 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railro
Slavery's Borderland
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Matthew Salafia
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation