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The story is that Liberty Corner Church was part of the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. I've talked to several old timers including Carl Allen, who wrote the old history and no one knows of any documentation on this. There is colored section of the cemetery marked on the old map (below), but there are no headstones today. At least one well known former slave, Samuel Sutphin, was a member until he passed away in 1841.
There is also indication of a black section of the cemetery the Basking Ridge church but no markers there either. |