Arson Threats on the Antislavery Route: An 1850 Lancaster Letter Amid Pennsylvania Underground Railroad Fugitive Slave Tensions Crisis, 1850
[Slavery & Abolition] [Underground Railroad] [ Fugitive Slave] Signed letter mentioning threats of arson against an abolitionist community in Pennsylvania, 1850. Lancaster stood on a volatile antislavery route in 1850, with fugitives moving west toward Columbia and the Susquehanna River while pro slavery men targeted communities accused of sheltering escapees.....
