Slavery: Something that happened “down South”—Right?

Not just “the South.” In fact, there were once slaves on the estate that included what is now La Salle’s campus, as is shown by the last wills and testaments of its late-seventeenth-century to mid-eighteenth-century Quaker owners. In those legal documents, they disposed of their copper frying pans, of their silver tankards, of their feather beds, of their livestock, and of the black people whom they owned.

This gallery highlights local connections to the Quaker protest of slavery, and explores the life of slave owner Pierce Butler, and his famous wife Frances Anne Kemble, residents of "Butler Place."