That and on the opposite side, in windsor there is one facing our statue pointing back on this side. Gateway to freedom means that this was the passageway or the route to get to canada to freedom. Was aderground railroad loose mechanism for the freedom seekers to escape to freedom. So, throughout the north especially, their work safe havens. The idea was to get across the ohio river from the slave states to the free states and so there were a lot of safe havens throughout illinois, indiana, forthpittsburgh, and so as well as michigan. The founders future founders of second baptist got involved in the underground railroad before they were even a church. Before they were even a place of worship back in 1831 when thornton and Lucy Blackburn escaped from a plantation in kentucky. The colored community was involved in helping them escape to toronto, in canada. To numbers, mr. And mrs. Lightfoot and mr. And mrs. French were prominent in that escape and they were future members of the second
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