Aunt Polly Jackson
A formerly enslaved woman who settled in the free Black community of Africa, Ohio, near Ripley on the Ohio River, Aunt Polly Jackson turned her home into a safe haven on the Underground Railroad. Passing as a harmless elderly cook, she is remembered in oral tradition for defending freedom seekers from slave catchers with a butcher knife and a kettle of boiling water. She fought the "Reverse Underground Railroad" of kidnappers who tried to drag free Black people back into bondage, and her fierce protection helped countless fugitives reach lasting freedom in the North.
“I will not let them take another soul back in chains.”
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Aunt Polly Jackson
A formerly enslaved woman who settled in the free Black community of Africa, Ohio, near Ripley on the Ohio River, Aunt Polly Jackson turned her home into a safe haven on the Underground Railroad. Passing as a harmless elderly cook, she is remembered in oral tradition for defending freedom seekers from slave catchers with a butcher knife and a kettle of boiling water. She fought the "Reverse Underground Railroad" of kidnappers who tried to drag free Black people back into bondage, and her fierce protection helped countless fugitives reach lasting freedom in the North.
“I will not let them take another soul back in chains.”
OUR FREEDOM. OUR FUTURE.
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