John J. Minor's Barbershop on Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio (c1980)

ID: 698 ~ Source: Boneyfiddle Association Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio ~ Date: circa 1980

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

This file appears in: John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

John J. Minor's Barbershop and "New Light" on the Underground Railroad: Recovering the History of Portsmouth's Underground Railroad

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Born in 1828 in Albemarle County, Virginia, John James Minor settled in Portsmouth, Ohio in the mid-1830s, not long after the city had expelled many of its Black residents during its infamous “Black…