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This is prerelease nightly version. It should NOT be considered as stable. Skip to content. Star 2. Releases Tags. Please feel free to contact us at missionus thirteen. Try playing on a computer that has the latest version of Flash. Esther also travels to Lexington to shop for the household and gathers information from other enslaved workers and free blacks at the Lexington market.

John Rankin was a Presbyterian minister who started out preaching in Tennessee, but was forced to leave when he made his anti-slavery views public. Rankin became an outspoken abolitionist in Ripley, Ohio, where he was extremely active in the Underground Railroad.

Rankin lived in a house high on a hill in Ripley, overlooking the village and the Ohio River. During the forty years preceding the Civil War, it is estimated over 2, slaves passed through Ripley, many of whom were assisted by the Reverend Rankin and his family.

She works planting, hoeing, weeding, harvesting, and bundling hemp. Nell has a pass which allows her to visit her husband on a neighboring plantation occasionally. In addition to his duties in the fields, Henry is also responsible for tending the smokehouse — cutting wood and maintaining the fire whenever hogs have been butchered and are ready to smoke.

Henry is strong-willed and has a short temper. He has run off for days at a time over the past year. Porter manages the Ripley Hotel with her husband. The hotel is located across from the ferry dock on the Ohio River. Originally from Kentucky, Mrs. Porter believes slavery is beneficial to both slaves and slave owners.

An outspoken abolitionist, she moved west to Ohio to teach in the Red Oak School under the supervision of Reverend Rankin. Lucy is the daughter of Nell. She only sees her father occasionally. Lucy is strong-willed and has gotten into trouble for speaking her mind.

Lucy works in the yard tending animals and the garden, washing clothes, toting water for field hands, and helping the cook. Their ancestors were Virginia slaves freed after the American Revolution and resettled by their owners in the Ohio River Valley.

The Wrights own and operate a laundry business for individuals and businesses in the area. Abigail and Morgan are abolitionists, and active in the Underground Railroad.

Sarah grew up playing with Lucy, but now views herself as an adult and mistress over the slaves. John Parker was a former slave who escaped from slavery in Alabama, was recaptured, and eventually purchased his own freedom.

He moved to Ripley, Ohio in , where he became active in the Underground Railroad. Parker was known to venture into Kentucky to help slaves across the Ohio River. He was a skilled iron worker, and one of the few African Americans to hold multiple patents during the 19th century. Parker eventually owned his own foundry, where he designed and manufactured farm tools. His Ripley house is a National Historic Landmark. Otis is the overseer on Master King's plantation.

Otis manages the enslaved labor and farming operations for Master King. Unlike Lucy and her family, Mr. Otis is paid a salary. He is a harsh supervisor who uses punishment—and fear of it—to force more labor from the slaves. He is running for office as a state representative. Harrison opposes the expansion of slavery to the western territories, but does not advocate the immediate abolition of slavery. He believes freed slaves could never become equal citizens in the United States, and instead supports the idea of government financed colonization, which means sending freed slaves to Liberia, Africa.

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