From the highest hill above the town of Ripley, Ohio, you can see
five bends in the Ohio River. You can see the hills of northern
Kentucky and the rooftops of Ripley's riverfront houses. And you
can see what the abolitionist John Rankin saw from his house at the
top of that hill, where for nearly forty years he placed a lantern
each night to guide fugitive slaves to freedom beyond the river.
In "Beyond the River, " Ann Hagedorn tells the remarkable story
of the participants in the Ripley line of the Underground Railroad,
bringing to life the struggles of the men and women, black and
white, who fought "the war before the war" along the Ohio River.
Determined in their cause, Rankin, his family, and his fellow
abolitionists -- some of them former slaves themselves -- risked
their lives to guide thousands of runaways safely across the river
into the free state of Ohio, even when a sensational trial in
Kentucky threatened to expose the Ripley "conductors." Rankin, the
leader of the Ripley line and one of the early leaders of the
antislavery movement, became nationally renowned after the
publication of his "Letters on American Slavery, " a collection of
letters he wrote to persuade his brother in Virginia to renounce
slavery.
A vivid narrative about memorable people, "Beyond the River" is
an inspiring story of courage and heroism that transports us to
another era and deepens our understanding of the great social
movement known as the Underground Railroad.
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