camden friends meeting house

1857 drawing "The road to liberty; a station on the Underground Railroad" / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

The escaped slave who put Camden, DE on the Underground Railroad map

by Dave Tabler

Solomon Bayley, newly on the run, woke in terror to see two slave hunters walking straight toward the thicket where he’d spent the night. “I was struck with dread,” he wrote in his autobiography, “afraid… Read More »The escaped slave who put Camden, DE on the Underground Railroad map

Yes, but was it graffiti?

by Dave Tabler
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As I’ve been traveling about this past year gathering photos and stories on historical sites across Delaware, I’ve been amused as well as entertained by the fact that curators of historic properties often love pointing… Read More »Yes, but was it graffiti?