Book Description

Information about Clermont County, Ohio's role in the Underground Railroad was once referred to as "the hole in the map,"--a historically significant area whose story about its role in the antislavery movement has largely been untold until now. In Freedom's Struggle, Clermont County historian, Gary Knepp writes about the forgotten heroes of the Underground Railroad in this Ohio River county, along with the religious and political struggles that took place before the American Civil War. As important and dramatic as it was, the Underground Railroad was just one component of a larger, more complex antislavery movement that had enveloped antebellum America. In Freedom's Struggle, Clermont County, Ohio, is presented as a microcosm of the national antislavery movement in all its facets--religion, politics, law, and the colonization and abolitionist societies.