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Learn Cyrus Griest's role in the Quaker Valley community and the operation of the Underground Railroad. Discover what he did to help free Kitty Payne. |
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 Hear how Edward Mathews and the Yellow Hill community collaborated with their Quaker neighbors to shelter escaping slaves and help them to freedom. |
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Kitty Payne, a freed slave who, with her three children, was abducted from her home and returned to slavery in Virginia. Discover what local friends and Yellow Hill residents did to bring her kidnappers to justice and help Kitty regain her freedom. Hear the conclusion of her harrowing tale and the story of her later life as wife of Gettysburg resident Abraham Brian. |
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Hear how Jessie Mathews Vann, a Yellow Hill orphan, rose above a childhood of neglect, poverty, and abuse to become a successful businesswoman and diplomat. |
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 David Wills was the local attorney who asked Abraham Lincoln to come to Gettysburg and make "a few appropriate remarks" about the Civil War. |
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