CSPAN2 Slavery And The Underground Railroad In South Central Pennsylvania January 22, 2017
South central pennsylvania. I have always been interested in the local history and particularly with the involvement of slavery in this area of pennsylvania. We often think of slavery as a southern institution. In my research i found this area of pennsylvania i called southcentral pennsylvania which is cumberland, franklin, york and adams counties was the slaveholding capital of pennsylvania from the 1770s on until almost the 1820s and 1830s and even though slavery was abolished in a gradual abolition act by the state in 1780, it still lingered in this local area which was very close to maryla...
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