This song, 'Get off the Track' was written and performed by the Hutchinson Family Singers, who bought High Rock in the mid-1800's. Their songs of abolition and other liberties attracted Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist, who joined them in a famous tour to England.
Frederick Douglass was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether colored, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
There will be an event at High Rock, on July 3rd, to remember this bit of liberating history...
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