False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio home goods yet each began life as

yet each began life as a child with a dream

where she helped found the Buckeye Trail

and attracted the nation's attention by taking a strong stand on the sale of alcohol

William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union’s sole military prison

a tough yet vulnerable waitress who becomes involved in an interracial affair

False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio home goods yet each began life asBrings to life the struggle for Black suffrage in nineteenth century Ohio In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through narratives of men of color who defied the states nineteenth century restrictions on suffrage. Though ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment ostensibly extended the franchise, state election laws still forced men of color into a perilous struggle for full citizenship. Ric S. Sheffield depicts their