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Underground Railroad: James Guthrie

In the early 19th century, a substantial number of North Carolinian Quakers migrated to southern Indiana in what is today the Hoosier National Forest. They left to escape the oppressive slave laws of North Carolina. In 1741, North Carolina enacted laws that denied slave owners the right to manumit their slaves. Quakers, who came to oppose slavery altogether, bypassed the state law through a trusteeship emancipation system. Through this system, slaves were entrusted with slave-owning Quakers…

  • Managed by: USDA Forest Service
  • Coordinates: 38.555908, -86.47067

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