At Tuckahoe Neck Meeting House, Quakers, also known as Friends, held strong views on the abolition of slavery and women’s rights and acted on those beliefs. After 1790, the Friends who gathered here refused membership to slaveholders. They also played critical roles in the Underground Railroad, relying on family, friends, and business contacts in the North to move fugitives from one safe house to another along the many paths to freedom. For many 19th century activists, abolition and women’s rights became two sides of the same coin of liberty and equality. Female members like Hannah Leverton, who operated a safe house south of here, fully participated in the life of the meeting and freely expressed their views no matter how controversial they seemed to others.