2019 The African American Experience: Slavery in South Central Pennsylvania

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As British settlers moved into Pennsylvania's south central region in the early 1700s, they brought enslaved people with them. As slavery was dying out in the eastern part of the state it would continue to thrive in what is now Cumberland, Adams, Franklin, and York counties. In this episode of The African American Experience, we talk with author Cooper Wingert about the history of slavery, the Underground Railroad, and abolition in South Central Pennsylvania.