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Richard Henderson was born enslaved in Maryland in 1801, escaped as a boy, and about 1824 came to Meadville. Working as a barber, he was long active in the Underground Railroad, and his Arch Street house, since torn down, is estimated to have sheltered some 500 runaway slaves before the Civil War.
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Meadville, Pennsylvania · United States
