First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 676 ~ Source: James R. Tanis Collection of Church Postcards, Special Collections and Archives at Princeton Theological Seminary. https://archive.org/details/oh521jtanis ~ Creator: Cook Photos

This file appears in: Portsmouth's First Presbyterian Church and the Antislavery Movement in Southern Ohio

This file appears in: Portsmouth's First Presbyterian Church and the Antislavery Movement in Southern Ohio

Portsmouth's First Presbyterian Church and the Antislavery Movement in Southern Ohio

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, the congregation now known as First Presbyterian of Portsmouth, Ohio, was a nexus of the antislavery movement in southern Ohio and it’s members, elders, and…