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Quest for Freedom

Sat., Feb. 26, 1 and 3 p.m., free, Philadelphia History Museum, 15 S. Seventh St., 215-685-4827, philadelphiahistory.org/quest.

Published: Feb 23, 2011

[ black history ]

Philadelphia played a key role in the long road to abolishing slavery, and the Philadelphia History Museum has the goods to prove it. Historian Cynthia Little presents a dozen items ranging from 18th-century shackles to the freedom papers free blacks had to carry "like a passport," she notes. Among the highlights are an 1833 anti-slavery declaration written on a piece of silk and a rare child's dress that was a product of the free labor movement. Each piece has its own history, and together, according to Little, they "tell the story of the creation of an anti-slavery culture in Philadelphia."

Sat., Feb. 26, 1 and 3 p.m., free, Philadelphia History Museum, 15 S. Seventh St., 215-685-4827, philadelphiahistory.org/quest.

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