Runaway Slave Illustration from Nelson W. Evans' History of Scioto County, Ohio (1903)

ID: 675 ~ Source: Nelson W. Evans, History of Scioto County, Ohio (1903): 612. ~ Date: 1903

This file appears in: Runaway Slave Advertisements in Portsmouth, Ohio

Runaway Slave Illustration from Nelson W. Evans' History of Scioto County, Ohio (1903)

This illustration of the iconic printer cut of the male runaway slave appeared in Nelson W. Evans' History of Scioto County, Ohio (1903), as an illustration for his essay entitled, "Relics of Barbarism."

This file appears in: Runaway Slave Advertisements in Portsmouth, Ohio

Runaway Slave Advertisements in Portsmouth, Ohio

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

As a river town, bordering the slave state of Kentucky, the newspapers of Portsmouth, Ohio, would occasionally publish runaway slave advertisements, paid for by slaveowners in Kentucky, Virginia, and other states to the south. As a major intermodal…