View of pews and balcony of First Presbyterian Church, Portsmouth, Ohio (2022)

ID: 681 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Vaughn Wascovich ~ Date: 2022

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…