Parallel Communities Quotes

“The work of the Underground Railroad was rightly covert in a state (NJ) where an elected senator claimed that the difficulty in the state was "not about surrendering fugitive slaves to their legal masters but rather how to get rid of those worthless slaves which the South suffer to escape into our territory, and remain there to the annoyance of our people." Tensions between blacks and whites were palpable, even in a "tolerant" community in the "free" North.”
― Dennis Rizzo, Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey