Calvin Fairbank portrait   Save
Ohio History Connection
Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait of Calvin Fairbank (1816-1898) of Hamilton County, Ohio. As an abolitionist, Fairbank would travel to the southern states and convince enslaved men and women to escape to freedom in Canada. He was imprisoned twice in the penitentiary at Frankford, Kentucky, for a total of more than seventeen years. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03133
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Hamilton County (Ohio)