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Calvin Fairbank: 17 Years in Prison
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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.
Calvin Fairbank: 17 Years in Prison is read by author and storyteller Bob Thompson. Bob is a regular on the WFPK radio show “Kentucky Homefront,” and his latest book is titled Stitched Together, Stories from a Kentucky Life.
A graduate of Oberlin College, Fairbank had assisted more than 43 slaves across the Ohio River by the time he was 28 years old. He and Delia Webster assisted the Lewis Hayden family to freedom before being caught on their return trip from Maysville to Lexington, Kentucky. Fairbank served four years in the Kentucky state penitentiary before he was pardoned. As soon as he was released, he continued his Underground Railroad activities until he was arrested for assisting a fugitive woman from Louisville for which he was convicted and served 13 years. During those years in prison he worked in the hemp factory and received numerous beatings.
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