Ripley Trail
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This photograph depicts a formerly enslaved man standing at the beginning of a trail freedom seekers used to reach the Rankin home in Ripley, Ohio.
This file appears in: John Rankin House
John Rankin House
We know that it was at the home of Presbyterian minister John Rankin that Eliza Harris had her first moment of safety after escaping from slavery. It had not been an easy journey for Eliza leaving in winter February 1838 from Dover, Kentucky with…