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The red brick home of Rev. John Rankin was a beacon--the first stop on the Underground Railroad in the North. Across the Wide River tells the true story of the sacrifices one family made to help runaway slaves.
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In Ohio in the early decades of the nineteenth century, Lowry Rankin opposes slavery but resents that aiding his family's work on the Underground Railroad continually robs him of sleep and interferes with his plans for the future.
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