Chronicles of Boone County Kentucky

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====== African Americans And The Anti-Slavery Movement in the Ohio Valley ======
  * **Mrs. Annis**
  * **Barrett Family**
  * **Henry Boyd**  Born 1802 in Kentucky and died in 1866.  Henry Boyd purchased his freedom in 1826.  He was a successful businessman in Cincinnati. He assisted William Casey and [[Calvin Fairbank|Calvin Fairbank]] in conducting 14 fugitives to Lawrenceburg.
  * **Nathan Brown**
  * **Burgess Family**
  * **Michael Clark** Father of Peter H. Clark, son of Elizabeth Clarke Gaines and her former enslaver.  He was a barber on the Ohio River and a member of Bethel AME.
  * **Peter H. Clark** [[1829|1829]]-[[1925|1925]] Born in Cincinnati as a free black, Peter H. Clark was the son of formerly enslaved man, Michael Clark.  Peter was an abolitionist writer, activist, and socialist. He was an acquaintance of Alphonso Taft and [[Abolitionists in the Ohio Valley|Levi Coffin]]. Peter was the first teacher in Cincinnati black Public Schools.
   * **Thomas and Jane Dorum** Thomas and Jane Dorum were free people of color who arrived in Cincinnati in the 1820s, both from Kentucky.  They lived in Cincinnati's 4th Ward, in a neighborhood known as "Little Africa." They harbored fugitives over a period of two decades, moving frequently for their own safety. 
  * **Ebenezer Elliott**
  * **John Isom Gaines**  Son of a free African American man named Isom Gaines and Elizabeth Clarke Gaines, a free woman formerly held by the Clarke family of Harrison County who had successfully sued the son of her enslaver. John I Gaines was Peter Clark's uncle and an active member in the abolitionist movement in Cincinnati.  All of the family members lived downtown.
  * **Augustus Green**
  * **Hall Family**
  * **John Hatfield**  He was a free man of color who was a river barber, a deacon at Zion church, and an active conductor. John Hatfield's wife, Frances, and daughter, Sarah, also helped with the Underground Railroad.
  * **Josiah Henson**
  * **Lewis Family**
  * **Joseph Logan**
  * **Joseph Love**
  * **Dan Lucas**
  * **Shelton Morris**
  * **John Parker**
  * **Dr. Perkins** Dr. Perkins was a free man of color and was indicted Sept 1852 for assisting in an escape of a man from an enslaver named Blackstone Rankins of Augusta, KY.  Perkins, who was 70 yrs old, was sentenced to 3 years in the Kentucky Penitentiary.
  * **Hansel Roberts**
  * **Wade Roberts**
  * **Henry and Isaac Rumsey**  Both of these free men of color were tried in Bracken County, KY court for aiding in the 1853 escape of a man from enslaver Walter Linn. Isaac was acquitted and the jury was not in agreement over Henry.  There were two white men also arrested in the same escape: [[Cripps|Cripps]] and [[James Cooper|James Cooper]].
  * **Mark Sims**
  * **William Watson**


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===== Related Topics =====
  * [[abolitionists_in_the_ohio_valley|Abolitionists in the Ohio Valley]]
  * [[The Underground Railroad in Boone County]]
  * [[Slavery]]
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