The Film: Interview Transcripts: Leroy Hopkins

LeRoy T. Hopkins, Ph.D., Underground Railroad historian, Millersville University, on
the role of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
You have to understand Underground Railroad activity in the greater context of resistance to slavery.  And of course who has greater reason to resist than the victim, him or herself.  And the best way to organize resistance is through organization. And the first organization in the black community is the church.

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Pennsylvania’s gradual
abolition act

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