Description Close to the Mason-Dixon line, South Central Pennsylvania was a magnet for slave catchers and Abolitionists alike.
Author Cooper Wingert reveals the history of the antislavery movement in South Central Pennsylvania..
In 1859, John Brown planned his Harpers Ferry raid from Chambersburg while local Abolitionists concealed his identity.
National figures such as Frederick Douglass toured the region, delivering antislavery orations to mixed receptions.
The sister of Benjamin Lundy, one of America\'s most famous abolitionists, married into an Adams County family and spent decades helping runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Influenced by religion and empathy, local Abolitionists risked their reputations, fortunes and lives in the pursuit of what they believed was right.
Description Close to the Mason-Dixon line, South Central Pennsylvania was a magnet for slave catchers and Abolitionists alike
