Freedom Seekers Reach the North Shore, detail from Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 707 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Andrew Feight, Ph.D. ~ Date: 2022

This file appears in: “The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

Freedom Seekers Reach the North Shore, detail from Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

In this detail from Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad mural in Portsmouth, Ohio, freedom seekers make it across the Ohio and land on the north-shore, while armed agents of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad stand guard.

This file appears in: “The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

“The Crossing”: Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.

Hidden away in plain sight, like the operations of the Underground Railroad itself, one finds Robert Dafford's mural honoring the heroic men and women who fled their enslavement in the southern states, as well as those (white and black) Scioto…