New Philadelphia (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

New Philadelphia

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This is a still from an audio slide show about the archaeological work done at New Philadelphia, a lost western Illinois town where blacks and whites lived together in peace and freedom a quarter of a century before the Civil War broke the grip of slavery. Audio Slide Show: http://news.illinois.edu/slideshows/newphiladelphia/index.html

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Image courtesy of Christopher Fennell. Slide Show produced by UI Public Affairs.

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