BLACK HISTORY ⚖️ The UndergroundRailroad carrying escaped slaves to freedom ran through NewYork, NewJersey and Connecticut. More information - BHM
HEREHarriet Tubman purchased a farm on the edge of Auburn, New York, in the town of Fleming, in 1859. After her return from service in the war in 1865, her home turned into a shelter for a cacophony of people including her parents and other relatives along with anyone who needed food, clothing, shelter or medical care. Tubman lived on this property for over fifty years, as she fought as a suffragist, social activist, and advocate for the elderly.
The Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged & Indigent Negroes is owned and managed by Harriet Tubman National Historical Park’s legislative partners, Harriet Tubman Home Inc. under the auspices of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.for more info. The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, listed as a site on the Network to Freedom, served as one of the offices for the Vigilance Committee of Albany throughout the 1840s and 1850s. This organization helped hundreds of freedom seekers who passed through Albany while escaping slavery. Stephen and Harriet Myers played critical roles in this Vigilance Committee and in Underground Railroad activism within the city.
The Gerrit Smith Estate served as the home for the prominent abolitionist Gerrit Smith and a prominent place for freedom seekers to stop as they escaped slavery. Smith also financially supported infamous abolitionist John Brown in his work in Kansas, and was a part of Brown’s “Secret Six” supporters of the raid in Harpers Ferry.
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