The Hadley Memorial Fund

Hadley Memorial Fund

Christopher Densmore
The Underground Railroad in Chester County and Beyond:
Across Race, Across Region, and Across Religion
Friday, February 29, 8 p.m., Unionville High School (Driving Directions)

In the decades before the Civil War, Chester County was on the borderland between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North. The area was home to a relatively large population of anti-slavery Quakers and, in the same neighborhoods as those Quakers, a large African American population. This talk will examine the bi-racial networks that supported the efforts of "fugitive slaves" to achieve their own liberation. It will also show how local anti-slavery and Underground Railroad workers participated in networks to freedom extending from Virginia to Canada. Christopher Densmore has a B.A. degree in history from Oberlin College and an M.A. in American History from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently Curator at Friends Historical Library, at Swarthmore College.

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