Authors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker separate fact from fiction in the story of Ohio's Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a macabre sort of dance between good and evil in which each side was trying to steal away the other's partner. However, in the upside-down-world of pre-Civil War America, the law was firmly on the side of evil and the dance often ended in death. It was a time when the newly formed country was deeply divided on the question of slavery and its fate hung in the balance. Just how long could a house divided against itself be expected to stand?
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978-1-5402-6617-0 (9781540266170)
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A graduate of Miami and Ohio State Universities, David Meyers has written a number of local histories, as well as several novels and works for the stage. He was recently inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame for his contributions to loca
