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Rendville, Ohio -- Emancipation Day circa 1912

 

                                                       

Text Box: Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it by being a slave himself.                                                           -- Abraham Lincoln       Abraham Lincoln -- Jan. 13, 1861

 

 

Frederick Douglass -- ca. 1874

 

 

 

 

 

 

Text Box: Who would be free themselves must strike the first blow.                                                 -- Frederick Douglass

 

 

 

John P. Parker House                     

John P. Parker house -- Ripley, Ohio  

 

 

Bethel AME Church

John Rankin house -- Ripley, Ohio