Peter Stuyvesant was an enslaver. So were other prominent New Yorkers whose names are all over the city. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Underground Railroad (19th Century)”
Rescuing an Off Off Broadway Theater With a Storied Past
By Gotham Rex on March 12, 2021
Preservationists hope to save the 13th Street Repertory Company building, with a little help from the Underground Railroad. Source: New York Times
Preserving New York’s Ties to the Underground Railroad
By Gotham Rex on January 8, 2021
Safe houses and other structures used in the fight against slavery were often clandestine, and survivors today can be difficult to document. But there’s a 19th-century house in Washington Heights … Source: New York Times
Who Tore Down This Frederick Douglass Statue?
By Gotham Rex on July 7, 2020
President Trump and others have speculated about why vandals destroyed a Rochester, N.Y., statue of the prominent Black abolitionist even as protests against systemic racism continue. Source: New York Times