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A stop at the Detroit Public Library which was the location of the jail that was the location of the citys first race riot. This location is where thornton and rutha were in jail. They escaped from slavery and there was an uprising to free them. They escaped from louisville, kentucky. They escaped because rutha blackburn had been sold down into new orleans, and thornton did not want to lose the woman he loved, so they escaped together and came to the city of detroit in 1831. When they came to detroit, it was far away from kentucky. Slave law,the 1793 going to ohio was still risky because bount...

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...