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Where African Americans lived free
The First African Baptist Church on Cumberland Island was established in 1893 and rebuilt in the 1930s.The First African Baptist Church was part of the Settlement, an area established in the 1890s for African American workers.Cliveden, the 18th-century home of the Chew family, is in the Germantown neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia. Seven generations of the Chew family owned enslaved Africans or African-Americans. The home and its inhabitants’ history is explored by interpreters on site.Named for an escaped slave, Nicodemus is the oldest surviving African-American town west of the Mississippi.
