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KEEP THE FREEDOM TRAIN ROLLING

10TH & CHESTNUT STREET MURAL

IN THE YEARS
BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
THERE WAS A ROUTE THAT
SLAVES COULD TAKE
TO FREEDOM.
IT CAME TO BE CALLED THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD,
A SECRET NETWORK
OF SAFE HOUSES OR "STATIONS,"
OPERATED BY
"STATIONMASTERS," "CONDUCTORS,"
AND "AGENTS",
DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS
WHO BELIEVED
DEEPLY THAT
SLAVERY WAS WRONG,
AND WHO RISKED THEIR
 LIVES AND PROPERTY
TO DELIVER PEOPLE OF
AFRICAN DESCENT
FROM BONDAGE.

 

PHILADELPHIA
WAS A VITAL JUNCTION ON THE 
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD,
PHILADELPHIANS-
MEN AND WOMEN,
YOUNG AND OLD,
FROM ALL RACES,  RELIGIONS
AND  WALKS OF LIFE,
KEPT THE FREEDOM 
TRAIN ROLLING.

 

THIS MURAL
COMMEMORATES THE WORK
OF THOSE
BRAVE
PHILADELPHIANS
AND THE 
COURAGEOUS SLAVES
THE "PASSENGERS."

 

Harriet Tubman
Conductor

Photographed April 23, 2001.

 

 

A FEW OF THE MANY WHO
GAVE OF THEMSELVES FOR OTHERS

WILLIAM STILL
AGENT, MAJOR RECORD KEEPER OF THE
PHILADELPHIA UGRR

LUCRETIA MOTT
QUAKER ABOLITIONIST
STATION MASTER

REV. RICHARD ALLEN
STATION MASTER

JACOB BLOCKSON
PASSENGER

HENRY "BOX" BROWN
PASSENGER

CHARLES & JOSEPH BUSTILL
STATION MASTERS, CONDUCTORS

WILLIAM & ELLEN CRAFT
PASSENGERS

HENRIETTA BOWERS DUTERTE
STATION MASTER

LEAR GREEN
PASSENGER

ISAAC HOPPER
AGENT, CONDUCTOR

SAMUEL JOHNSON & FAMILY
STATION MASTERS

J. MILLER McKIM
AGENT, STATION MASTER

ROBERT PURVIS
AGENT, STATION MASTER

PASSMORE WILLIAMSON
AGENT

 

 

 

James E. Frizzell
Post Office Box 595
Kimberton, Pennsylvania 19442

e-mail: jimmy@jim-frizzell.com

date posted: April 25, 2001.