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Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described h...
John Brown's Headquarters
This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhou...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
Writer, educator, lawyer, abolitionist and the f...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, state...
New Castle County Courthouse
The New Castle County Courthouse, a National ...
Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House
The Appoquinimink Friends Meetings House, erecte...
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Qua...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Beth...
The Grimes Homestead
This house, constructed in the late 18th century...
Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse a...
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Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described how she employed her knowlege of Bruin's slave jail as background for her explosive 1852 novel,Uncle Tom's Cabin. In The Key, she described the escape of a number of slaves from ...
John Brown's Headquarters
This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhouse, was the headquarters from which John Brown (1800-1859) planned and executed his raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. Along with a small band of followers, he ...
Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
Writer, educator, lawyer, abolitionist and the first black newspaperwoman in North America, Mary Ann Shadd Cary lived in this brick row house from 1881 to 1885. Cary was one of the most outspoken and articulate female proponents of the ...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, statesman, and Underground Railroad conductor Frederick Douglass (1817--1895) resided in this house from 1877 until his death. At the request of his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, Congress chartered the Frederick Douglass Memorial and ...
New Castle County Courthouse
The New Castle County Courthouse, a National Historic Landmark, is a Georgian style brick building, built in three sections between 1730 and 1830. Among its many court cases were the Hunn-Garrett Trials of 1848. Thomas Garrett(1789-1871), a businessman, and ...
Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House
The Appoquinimink Friends Meetings House, erected in 1783, is located in a community where a strong Quaker antislavery movement existed. The Meeting House is associated with John Hunn (1818-1894) and John Alston (1794-1874), two Underground Railroad "station masters" who ...
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Quakers and anti-slavery sympathizers had set aside land for freed slaves. African-American hamlets were established in secluded areas on portions of Quaker land throughout western New Jersey. Small Gloucester, also known ...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, ...
The Grimes Homestead
This house, constructed in the late 18th century, was home to the Grimes family, a Quaker family active in the New Jersey antislavery movement. Dr. John Grimes (1802-1875), the most noted and vociferous antislavery advocate in the family, was ...
Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse are significant for their association with the Underground Railroad and the celebrated Amistadaffair of 1839-1841. Oral tradition indicates that Austin F. Williams (1805-1885), a leading abolitionist of the day who devoted much ...
