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Quest for Freedom: Atwater Kent Museum
Explore Philadelphia's early African American history
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Atwater Kent Museum
Photo courtesy of Atwater Kent Museum
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Underground Railroad Connection
As the City’s official history museum, the Atwater Kent tells the 300-year history of Philadelphia’s people in the Experience Philadelphia! Gallery as well as in temporary exhibitions. Programs may be arranged drawing from a collection of over 100,000 items based upon adult group interests.
The stories of Africans and African-Americans in Philadelphia are reflected in a silver bowl accompanying a slave child to Philadelphia in the 1690s, wrist shackles from the 1700s, African-American Quaker dolls from the early 1800s, a child’s coffin from the First African Baptist Church cemetery in the 1830s, and a banner commemorating the life of post Civil War civil rights leader Octavius V. Catto.
These and many others are used to inspire curiosity and awe and a commitment to civic engagement and responsibility.
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