Throughout Northern Kentucky (and particularly Boone County), there is a gap in knowledge regarding enslavement, the Underground Railroad (UGRR) movement, and African American history as a whole. In slaveholding border counties along the Ohio River, information about enslavement and UGRR activities-and African American voices in general-were suppressed for 150 years due to a complex societal situation and a mass exodus of former enslaved people in the years following the Civil War. Boone County Public Library's (BCPL) local history department recognized the need for a comprehensive initiative to compile and disseminate African American and UGRR history in Northern Kentucky to give voice to a population that was silenced for centuries.
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