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Meet Jacob Cummings, one of the main figures from the Carnegie Center's exhibition "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad." This exhibit draws the national phenomenon of the Underground Railroad into sharp focus by revealing the contributions of ordinary people, both free and enslaved, whose courageous acts on both sides of the Ohio River helped overthrow the institution of slavery. For two and a half centuries, slavery was a blight on our nation's psyche. Through it all, more and more ordinary people acted in the face of human tragedy—and changed America forever.
Meet Jacob Cummings, one of the main figures from the Carnegie Center's exhibition "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad." This exhibit draws the national phenomenon of the Underground Railroad into sharp focus by revealing the contributions of ordinary people, both free and enslaved, whose courageous acts on both sides of the Ohio River helped overthrow the institution of slavery. For two and a half centuries, slavery was a blight on our nation's psyche. Through it all, more and more ordinary people acted in the face of human tragedy—and changed America forever.
