Editing Jeffersonville, Indiana (section)

==== Underground Railroad ====
{{See also|Underground Railroad in Indiana}}As a free state bordering the south, Indiana served as a crucial step along the [[Underground Railroad]]. By 1830, Jeffersonville was the first and largest route for fugitives crossing the Ohio River at Louisville. Hundreds of freedom seekers made their way north to Canada through Clark County.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clark County Indiana History|url=https://www.co.clark.in.us/index.php/about-clark-county-indiana/clark-county-indiana-history|access-date=October 11, 2021|website=www.co.clark.in.us|archive-date=October 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019054217/https://www.co.clark.in.us/index.php/about-clark-county-indiana/clark-county-indiana-history|url-status=live}}</ref> There were many instances where Jeffersonville citizens helped fugitives flee enslavement.  In the 1850s, Mayors Oswald Wooley and Uriah Damron were arrested for "running off" enslaved people.  In 1863, Hannah Tolliver, a black wash woman, was arrested on the Louisville, Kentucky wharf as she attempted to help another woman cross the Ohio River to freedom.  Hannah was convicted and became one of seven women inmates at the Kentucky State Prison at Frankfort.  Dr. Nathaniel Field moved from Middletown, Kentucky to Jeffersonville in 1829.  He was the head of UGRR activity in Jeffersonville, hiding escapees in his cellar during the day and sending them on to the next "station" at night.  Field was President of the Indiana Antislavery Society and friend of Levi Coffin, the head of the Underground Railroad at Cincinnati and at Richmond, Indiana.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}

The Rev. Calvin Fairbank was arrested in Jeffersonville for helping the woman, Tamar, escape.  He was tried in Louisville and convicted and spent decades in the Frankfort prison.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}