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John Fairfield, Gun for Hire
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This podcast will be released at 6:00am on Soundcloud, and will subsequently be released on iTunes, Spotify, and Stitcher.
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Thirty Days of Stories on the Underground Railroad is a series of podcasts series created in celebration of September as International Underground Railroad Month. The Oldham County History Center is celebrating by recording a podcast story on the Underground Railroad to broadcast each day of September.
John Fairfield, Gun for Hire is read by Dr. Jonathan Shorr, retired professor, University of Baltimore, podcast producer of “Burning Bright” for Passager, publishers.
John Fairfield grew up in Virginia in a slave holding family and despised slavery. He helped his friend Bill, his uncle’s slave, to escape and go west and from that point Fairfield became a Conductor for hire, often working up and down the Ohio River. Fairfield had great success with helping freedom seekers and once told Levi Coffin that “every slave had a right to freedom and had a perfect right to shoot down anyone who became between him and liberty.”
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