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

Washington County, Ohio, has been involved in the success of the subway - it disappeared - in the hills and waters of Virginia, the straw swamps got wet and disappeared - I am a stolen daughter! "(Hamilton's Whittle, page 105) Families fall apart, humans are sold at auctions, humans are used to exploit animals.The beginning of motivation and free slavery.

According to the Freedom Certificate, Amos Sisco in Washington County is a free black man, "About Dropping the Ohio River into a Steamboat of Cook". In 1837 Cisco needed a certificate to protect his behavior. And during the recorded year the subway street was active, and the waterways and rivers were often used as a means of transport for fugitives slaves. Jesse Turner of Southampton County, Virginia was registered in the county court as a colored person on August 18, 1829. The record of the application was submitted to Allegheny County contract on September 6, 1848. Turner can move to Allegheny County in 1848 and is required to submit his free identity card. Considering the serious retaliation against Nat - Turner 's African American after the rebellion at Southamptonshire in 1831, Jesse Turner may find it difficult to obtain his certificate after the rebellion .

It is difficult to accurately judge the number of slaves who escaped from the subway. According to the website of the National Underground Railway Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, it is estimated that "in the 19th century, more than 100,000 enslaved people were seeking freedom via subway streets." Writer James McPherson pointed out that hundreds of slaves were escaped every year in the mid-19th century at the "Battle of Freediness" and the National Park Service website was between 1820 and 1860 "The most common calculations are actually A thousand people have escaped every year.In another article of "Black Research Journal" it is estimated that there were only about 2,000 people who ran away from 1830 to 1860 by using subway streets.

There are various explanations about the creation method. Tice Davids is a slave to Kentucky and flew to Ohio state in 1831, but the word "subway road" might have been created as a result of his escape. His husband was chasing Davis, but he was lost sight of him at Ohio. According to Blight, he is claimed to claim that Davis disappeared. It must have been "the black man left the subway." I like this story - a suitable account for Richard Pryor - but it seems unlikely that this is unlikely because there are few railroads