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Tag: Underground Railroad

Photo: traveling exhibition for Harriet Tubman, “The Journey to Freedom,” on exhibit at Philadelphia City Hall, Pennsylvania. Credit: Wofford Sculpture Studio, LLC.

Lancaster County Quaker Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on August 23, 2024

Melissa Berry writes more about abolitionist families who acted as “conductors” on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania... (Read More)

Photo: traveling exhibition for Harriet Tubman, “The Journey to Freedom,” on exhibit at Philadelphia City Hall, Pennsylvania. Credit: Wofford Sculpture Studio, LLC.

Lancaster County Quaker Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on August 20, 2024

Melissa Berry writes about abolitionist families who for many years acted as “conductors” on the Underground Railroad in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania... (Read More)

Photo: Jackson Homestead, Newton, Massachusetts. Credit: Historic Newton; Wikimedia Commons.

Brave Abolitionists on New England’s Underground Railroad, Part II

By Melissa Berry on January 18, 2022

Melissa Berry continues her story about 2 brothers, William & Francis Jackson, who helped fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts... (Read More)

Illustration: "A Ride for Liberty –- The Fugitive Slaves" by Eastman Johnson, c. 1862. Credit: Brooklyn Museum; Wikimedia Commons.

Brave Abolitionists on New England’s Underground Railroad

By Melissa Berry on January 11, 2022

Melissa Berry writes about two brothers, William and Francis Jackson, who helped fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad in Massachusetts... (Read More)


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