Morris County - Morris Twp - Cape May’s role in the Underground Railroad

Thursday, September 26 – Morris County
7:14 p.m.   North Jersey Civil War Round Table meeting.

    Bestselling author Barbara Dreyfuss will present Cape May’s role in the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement and where the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman earned needed money to continue her historic rescue trips to the Eastern Shore across Delaware Bay

    Before the Civil War, Cape May a popular summer resort at the southern tip of New Jersey, was in fact the meeting place of north and south, where southern planters enjoyed its cool breezes alongside abolitionists from Philadelphia and New York. In the part of town where the large seaside hotels were, fights often broke out between planters, abolitionists and the free blacks working there. But a few blocks away black leaders of Philadelphia’s Underground Railroad came in the summers to relax and retool for the struggle ahead. So too did famed white abolitionist leaders, including Sen. Charles Sumner.  They debated and discussed how to wage the fight against slavery. And it was in Cape May that the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman earned needed money to continue her historic rescue trips to the Eastern Shore across Delaware Bay.

Barbara Dreyfuss is a founding board member and research director of the Harriet Tubman Museum in Cape May, scheduled to open in 2020. She researched and wrote the Underground Railroad trolley tour of Cape May, given twice a week by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts. The tour has been accepted by the National Park Service into its Network to Freedom. She is the author of Hedge Hogs: The Cowboy Traders Behind Wall Street’s Largest Hedge Fund Collapse.

Haggerty Education Center at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, 353 E. Hanover Avenue, Morris Twp. (opp. the Morris County Library). Admission $5 Students – free 
Location: 353 E Hanover Ave, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA

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