Underground Railroad Lecture

New Garden Friends Meeting / 2019 is the 200th anniversary of the first known activity in North Carolina on what came to be known as the Underground Railroad. Two Guilford College historians, Adrienne Israel and James Shields, will share about that history. Following their presentation on the significance of the UGRR for both the African-American and Quaker communities, there will be guided tours of the UGRR woods on the Guilford College campus and the Friends burial ground where some of the activists on the UGRR are buried. The event is sponsored by the North Carolina Fellowship of Friends.