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Today’s blog post was written by our Destination Freedom Coordinator, EJ Murphy.

As a secretive system meant to subvert the institution of slavery, the Underground Railroad can be a difficult topic to research. While many believe that the Underground Railroad was a coordinated, systemic operation, participants in the Underground Railroad, known as “conductors,” often came and went in a kaleidoscopic fashion. Written documentation such as letters and diaries are extremely rare, citing again the need for secrecy. As most formerly enslaved people who settled in places such as Waverly were

Wilbur H. Siebert’s seminal 1898 study, “The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom,” is one of the (if not the) earliest works to highlight Waverly as a stop along the eastern Pennsylvania route, mapping the village as a northern destination after Stroudsburg and Wilkes-Barre. Siebert does not, however, list any Waverly residents as operators in Luzerne County (which at that time still incorporated current-day Lackawanna County) in his rostered appendix. Wilkes-Barre’s William Gildersleeve is the onl

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