VHAS Book Club: Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey

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Join The Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society for our monthly book club!

We are reading Abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey: Not Without a Fight By Ellen D. Alford

We will meet at the museum and will Zoom to discuss the book.

Date: Wednesday, 09/24/25
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: The VHAS Museum, 108 S Seventh St, Vineland, NJ 08360 and on ZOOM

You will receive the Zoom link once registered.

About the Book: Southern New Jersey was a hotbed of slave fugitives, freedmen and abolitionists in the Civil War era. The proud 22nd Regiment of the United States Colored Troops included hundreds of Black New Jerseyans ready to fight for emancipation and the Union cause. Abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, Abigail Goodwin and Benjamin Sheppard operated among key landmarks of the Underground Railroad in South Jersey counties such as Cape May, Cumberland and Salem. Slavery and the rights of Black Americans were at the forefront of the region's attention including stories such as a melee in a Cape May hotel between Black waiters and white patrons, the covert signaling of boats ferrying fugitive slaves across the Delaware River and the daring rescue of a runway slave from the hands of slave catchers by local church worshipers. Author Ellen Alford reveals the history of abolition and the Underground Railroad in South Jersey.

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