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Zoom Presentation: Thursday, February 25, 2021 @ 7:00 pm Another Victim Has Been Sacrificed to the Fugitive Slave Law: The Trial and Attempted Rescue of Moses Horner

by b.price111 | Feb 10, 2021 | Uncategorized

In March 1860, authorities captured Moses Horner, a suspected runaway slave from Virginia, a few miles outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, federal agents were to recover fugitive slaves from the North and were permitted to force...
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Since 1903, the mission of the Gloucester County Historical Society has been to collect and preserve material pertaining to the Southern New Jersey area.

Our research Library is the repository of one of the largest genealogical collections in Southern New Jersey.

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