{"id":3587,"slug":"office-of-the-philanthropist-newspaper-cincinnati-ohio","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Philanthropist office is the mobbed press — the Main and Seventh corner that the '36 riots destroyed twice. The type was the target — the cases scattered in the street, the presses dragged through the city. The 'respectable' were the mob — the wealthy gentlemen who broke in, the businessmen who feared the Kentucky trade.","The resumption was the defiance — Birney's September restart, the seven more years in the city. The black community was the victim — the burned tenements, the Fourth of July celebration that was attacked. The Philanthropist is the silenced-unsilenced — the paper that the mob couldn't kill, the abolition that continued.","The file keeps the Philanthropist office: the 1836 mobs, the destroyed press, the resumed publication, and the site.","The Philanthropist office is the archive's Cincinnati file — the press that was wrecked twice."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Philanthropist office is the archive's Cincinnati file — the abolitionist press attacked.","An office keeps its mobs — the file's suggestion being that the Philanthropist's hold is the persistence: the twice-destroyed press, the seven years that followed, and the corner that was the site."]}],"name":"Office of the Philanthropist Newspaper","aliases":[],"type":"HISTORIC_SITE","type_label":"Historic Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD_HISTORY","AFRICAN_AMERICAN_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE","UNDERGROUND_RAILROAD","PRESS"],"groups":["dark-history","historic-sites"],"desc":"Birney’s abolitionist paper—the office the mob destroyed.","full_desc":"A historic site in Cincinnati, Ohio, an NPS Network to Freedom, Office of the Philanthropist Newspaper is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Birney’s abolitionist paper—the office the mob destroyed. HauntHunt files it with Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Cincinnati","county":null,"state":"Ohio","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":39.140183,"lon":-84.505829,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"NPS Network to Freedom","current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UGRR enrichment wave 1; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Office of the Philanthropist Newspaper's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01","url":"https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"Office of the Philanthropist Newspaper is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"NPS Network to Freedom listing","url":"https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"The 1836 mob attack is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. 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