Asbury Parker portrait   Save
Wilbur H. Siebert Collection
Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait of Asbury Parker (b. 1830?). He was a fugitive slave who crossed into Ohio at Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio, on his way to freedom in Canada. He is shown here wearing the slave clothes he escaped in. 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: AL03192
Subjects: Ironton (Ohio); Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Ironton (Ohio); Lawrence County (Ohio)