Guest Speaker: Haverford Township and Slavery

Our township resident, Colin McCrossan, who is a Haverford High School graduate and recently graduated from McGill University, will be presenting his research on the history of slavery in Haverford Township.  By using a wide range of source materials, Mr. McCrossan has reconstructed and detailed the lives of over forty-four enslaved black people and twenty white slave owners whose histories were erased and forgotten, until now. Come learn about this history through the eyes of:

• A young black woman and girl who escaped from their slave owner in the dead of winter.

• A quaker farmer who enslaved a black man and only freed him to avoid excommunication.

•  A black man who freed himself from enslavement and the irish tavern keeper who spent over two years trying to recapture him.