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Richard Henderson PA1578

Born a slave in Maryland in 1801, he escaped as a boy and about 1824 came to Meadville. A barber, he was long active in the Underground Railroad. His Arch Street house, since torn down, is estimated to have harbored some 500 runaway slaves prior to the Civil War.

Liberty & Arch Sts., Meadville. Crawford County Pennsylvania.


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