Freedom Seekers and agents of the Underground Railroad prepare to cross the Ohio River, detail from Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad Mural in Portsmouth, Ohio
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In this detail from Robert Dafford's Underground Railroad mural in Portsmouth, Ohio, a group of African Americans and their Underground Railroad conductors prepare to cross the Ohio River in a rowboat.
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
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…