In 1846, Quaker families from Pennsylvania and New Jersey came to Woodlawn to build an antislavery community grounded in equality and nonviolence. They modeled these values through innovative farming and free labor, working alongside paid laborers to demonstrate an alternative to slavery in Virginia. There, they settled among a small free Black community already living nearby. This exhibition explores the parallel lives, shared aspirations, and evolving relationships between the Woodlawn Quakers and their free Black neighbors.
