Street scene in Ripley, Ohio   Save
Ohio History Connection
Description: Photograph showing a group of unidentified African Americans of various ages, posed outside of a home in Ripley, Ohio. They may be residents of small community known as Africa, which was a settlement of free African Americans established on a hillside above Ripley. Located along the Ohio River in Brown County, the town of Ripley was an active location on the Underground Railroad, followed by fugitive slaves crossing the river from Kentucky on their journey to Canada. Because Ohio was a free state, communities like the one pictured here sprang up as homes for freed and formerly enslaved African Americans and their families. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC_92_007
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; African American Ohioans
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)