John J. Minor's Barbershop on Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio (c1980)

ID: 698 ~ Source: Boneyfiddle Association Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio ~ Date: circa 1980

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad

John J. Minor's Barbershop on Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio (c1980)

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad

John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Born in 1828 in Albemarle County, Virginia, John James Minor settled in Portsmouth, Ohio in the mid-1830s, not long after the city had expelled many of its Black residents during its infamous “Black Friday” enforcement of Ohio laws requiring African…