Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia
Interpreting the struggle for freedom, equality and national unity
Central to the history of the tragic conflict of the Civil War was slavery. The same members involved in collecting and preserving the materials of the Civil War were vital to the same preservation for the history of slavery.
Donated items include receipts for the purchases of slaves, memoirs and autobiographies of abolitionists and individuals involved in the antislavery movement, copies of "The Liberator," the leading antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, and a first edition of William Still's classic History of the Underground Railroad, published in 1872.