Event Details
This engaging one-hour lecture (including audience Q&A participation) explores Bucks County’s pivotal role in the Underground Railroad and its impact on local, state, and national history. Set along the Delaware River corridor, communities like Yardley, New Hope, Bensalem, Bristol, Buckingham, and beyond formed a vital network of refuge for freedom seekers.
Limited seating — RSVP recommended.
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Told from the town where this history unfolded—Yardley Borough—and highlighting both documented and speculated sites, this program is led by a storyteller with ancestral ties to this history, bringing powerful authenticity and lived connection.
Discover how waterways, homes, churches, and meeting houses created pathways to freedom, and learn about sites that still stand today as symbols of courage. The program honors the bravery of abolitionists, Quakers, and free African Americans who risked everything in the fight for human dignity.
Program highlights include:
* Historic Underground Railroad and abolitionist sites you can still visit
* Local stories with national significance
* The role of rivers, canals, people, and community networks
* Interactive Q&A on resistance, moral courage, and legacy