Ages 16 & up

Decades before the Civil War began, abolitionists and sympathizers were active north of Gettysburg in the areas we call Quaker Valley and Yellow Hill. 

Here, just a few miles north of the Mason Dixon line, members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) worked with local freedmen Edward Mathews and Basil Biggs to bring escaping slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. 

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