by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
New Garden was a little heaven on earth for a fugitive. A great number of persons called to see us and congratulate us on our successful venture. Some of them we had known in bygone days. This was delight added to pleasure. Companions in slavery once, now companions...
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and common humanity was the sustenance needed to make it through the rest of the week in a society that deemed them less than human....
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
I should have done violence to my convictions of duty had I not made use of all the lawful means in my power to liberate those people and assist them to become men and women, rather than leave them in the condition of chattels personal. —Thomas Garrett, as quoted in A...
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
If the Union is to be dissolved, slavery is precisely the question upon which it ought to break. Slavery is the root of almost all of the troubles of the present and the fears of the future. —President John Quincy Adams The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Much of the...
by delliott | Jan 17, 2024
A Natural Gateway for Freedom Seekers Strategically located near the Mason-Dixon Line, Chester County with its rolling hills and thick woodlands, became a natural gateway for freedom seekers traveling under the cover of night. Yet, it was the moral geography of the...
