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In September 1851, a man in his 50s boarded a train from Philadelphia heading toward Lancaster County. His name was Samuel Williams, and he had been sent by William Still to warn a self-protection network in Christiana that a slaveholder named Edward Gorsuch was coming - with a warrant, a notorious slave catcher named Kline, and a posse of armed white men - to drag four Black men back into bondage. Williams sat down in the same car as the whole party. He listened to everythin

In the 1830s, Black Philadelphians were building something new. Beyond churches and beneficial societies, Black-led organizations formed to confront the most intimate and destructive forces shaping daily life, enslavement, poverty, violence, and addiction. Among the most urgent of these struggles was alcohol abuse. Freedom from intemperance was not understood as a private moral choice, but as a collective survival strategy tied to emancipation, political power, and the future

Sometimes we stumble upon incredible stories from the past and this was one was soooo good, we had to bring it to you in it's unadulterated format. It's a story of a deeply felt inspiration; one that led to the liberation of hundreds...inspired by the viewing of a portrait at 918 Lombard Street. It's the story of how one successful slave ship uprising encouraged another. And it's a story about how Black Philadelphia supported and grew worldwide liberation in the mid-1800s

INTRODUCTION We are proud to introduce a new Story Map and Self-Guided Tour that brings to life the people and places of...

We are excited to introduce you to our latest exhibit Free, As One: Black Worldmaking in the Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers...

During these cold winter days we think about enslaved Black people planning to make their escape in December, in the dead of winter. ...