Lost and Found
Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Lost and Found Lost In bold defiance of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which required citizens to aid in the recovery of runaway slaves, Quaker abolitionist Thomas Bonsall offered sanctuary to escaping slaves on his farm in West Caln Township, Chester County. Bonsall, a stationmaster on the Underground Railroad for thirty years, secreted southern runaways in the second-floor granary of his bank barn, a stop...read more