"New York City was a hotbed for abolitionist advocacy in the years leading up to the Civil War. Henry Ward Beecher, brother of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, called for the end of slavery from the pulpit of his Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. Frederick Douglass wrote in his memoir of befriending a sailor named Stuart on the New York City streets in the aftermath of his own escape from bondage (disguised, himself, as a sailor)."
""...the story of the underground railroad in New York is like a jigsaw puzzle, many of whose pieces have been irretrievably lost, or a gripping detective story where the evidence is murky and incomplete." Now, an unassuming museum in Manhattan's NoHo neighborhood has found one of those seemingly irretrievable puzzle pieces-not in the pages of an old record book, nor in a storage space for archived artifacts,"
An 1832 New York City house that has operated as a museum for 90 years contains a previously hidden passageway that served the Underground Railroad, guiding escaped slaves to freedom. The passage was intentionally built by Joseph Brewster, an earlier owner and committed abolitionist. The museum has historically focused on the Tredwell family, who lived in the home for nearly a century. The newly discovered passage is now endangered by a neighboring development project. New York City hosted prominent abolitionist activity, including figures such as Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth, and documentary evidence of the Underground Railroad there remains incomplete.
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