Daily News | At South Jersey riverfront, a 165-mile Walk to Freedom comes to joyous end
The goal of the walk was to trace the South Jersey routes Underground Railroad conductors used to help Black people fleeing from enslavementCivil War spyFor nearly two months of mostly weekend trips, Johnston, Price, and Alvin Corbett, a New Jersey-based public historian, walked on their own.On May 28, about 50 people gathered at 8 a.m. at Timbuctoo, a village in Westampton, Burlington County, settled in 1826 by free and formerly enslaved Black people.
Johnston has made other walks: In 2018, from Selma, Ala., to Memphis, in observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From 2019 to 2021, he made a similar walk tracing Tubman’s movements on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River, from Maryland to New York.
After a ceremony at the riverfront, the walkers and guests attended a celebratory program at the nearby Burlington Quaker Center Meeting House and Center for Conference. They came from the Peter Mott House in Lawnside, and from Jacob’s Chapel in Mount Laurel, where Dr. James Still, Philadelphia abolitionist William Still’s older brother, is buried in the church cemetery.A white Quaker family, a mother and her two adult children came from Maryland and Virginia to visit the Burlington meeting house the day before the walk to find out more about their family history. The brother and sister learned about the Walk to Freedom and joined it the next day.
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