Lancaster County Quakers were among the earliest enslavers of African Americans. Although they were pacifists, some local Quakers went to war in opposition to “the greater evils.’’ Quakers were leaders
In 1728, as a group of residents in the western part of Chester County sought to create a more locally administered county, their petition to the authorities mentioned that “thieves,
The writer of the Nov. 10 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “Name change for the birds?” worries that the woke crowd might rename the Griest Building if they discover that William
Well, how interesting that ornithologists in America want to change the name of birds, because old John James Audubon was a slave owner who opposed abolition. Of course we would