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parallel communities the underground railroad in south jersey
for slaves escaping on the underground railroad names like springtown and snow hill promised sanctuary and salvation . under the pressures of racial prejudice free blacks runaway slaves and even many native americans formed island communities on the periphery of south jersey towns . while lawnside and others continue to thrive today fringe communities like marshalltown and timbuctoo now exist only in memory . p in this discussion of these primarily african american communities dennis rizzo validates their role in the preservation of tradition definition of extended family and creation of a social bond between diverse peoples ; together they formed parallel communities based on but independent of the larger towns and villages familiar to us all .