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Columbus Neighborhoods: Worthington - Abolitionists
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 31s
Early settlers of Worthington were strong abolitionists
One day in 1821, a slave catcher came through town transporting a run away from Kentucky from town came through Worthington. The Worthington people were not happy about having slave masters and bounty hunters in their town and were not about to see any slaves taken back down South.
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Columbus Neighborhoods
Columbus Neighborhoods: Worthington - Abolitionists
Clip: Season 2 Episode 3 | 2m 31s
One day in 1821, a slave catcher came through town transporting a run away from Kentucky from town came through Worthington. The Worthington people were not happy about having slave masters and bounty hunters in their town and were not about to see any slaves taken back down South.
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