2021 African American Experience: The African American Community in Hinsonville, PA

In the 1830s a free Black community was established in Hinsonville, PA located in Chester County. Over the next several decades, members of the community established a church, participated in the Underground Railroad, helped found what would become Lincoln University, and fought in the Civil War. In this episode of the African American Experience we talk with Cheryl Renée Gooch about the history of the community. She is the author of “Hinsonville's Heroes: Black Civil War Soldiers of Chester County, Pennsylvania” and “On Africa's Lands: The Forgotten Stories of Two Lincoln Educated Missionaries in Liberia.”