| Title: | Rankin House on Liberty Hill in Ripley, home of Abolitionist John Rankin |
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| Notes: | "There in Ripley was a man named Mr. Rankins; I think the rest of his name was John. He had a regular station there on his place for escaping slaves....He had a big lighthouse in his yard, about thirty feet high and he kept it burnin' all night. It alway meant freedom for a slave if he could get to this light. Sometimes Mr. Rankins would have twenty or thirty slaves that had run away on his place at the time. It must have cost him a whole lots to keep them and feed 'em, but I think some of his friends helped him." -- Arnold Gragston, former slave -- [from Wikimedia] |
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| Date: | 2005 |
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| Object/Function: | Photograph |
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| City/Town: | Ripley
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| State: | OH
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Luke 12:32-40
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| Lectionary links: | CProp14
AHoly01
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| General Subject: | Hospitality
Slavery
Servanthood
Light
Home
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| Copyright Source: | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rankin_house_looking_up_path_2005.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | Rankin House on Liberty Hill in Ripley, home of Abolitionist John Rankin, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=55547 [retrieved May 3, 2024]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rankin_house_looking_up_path_2005.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 55547
Last Updated: 2022-01-12 09:54:58
Record Created: 2013-05-03 14:42:12 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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