Emancipation Anniversary: A Grassroots Victory
Almost lost in the depressing “Fiscal Cliff” spectacle was the anniversary marking one of the major positive milestones of our history — President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. On...
View ArticleUGRR Conference: Milestones on the Road to Freedom
The 2013 Underground Railroad Public History Conference in the Capital District this year is marking three major milestones: the Emancipation Proclamation 150 years ago, the death of Harriet Tubman 100...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Rejected Black Voting Rights
In 1846, New York voters rejected equal voting rights for black males by a wide margin — 71% to 29%. This rejection helped persuade Gerrit Smith to start his Timbuctoo colony in the Adirondacks. His...
View ArticlePreservation Fight At Manhattan Underground RR Site
Manhattanites are agitating on behalf of the home of one of the city’s leading 19th Century agitators–Abigail Hopper Gibbons. She and her husband James S. Gibbons ran a strongly documented Underground...
View ArticleBlack History Progams at Adirondack Prison
The Adirondack Correctional Facility at Raybrook is hosting a series of special Black History Month programs for inmates that focus on 19th Century stories of African-Americans in the North Country....
View ArticleAbolitionist History Season Getting An Early Start
The Abolitionist History season is starting early this year. First, the North Star Underground Railroad Museum at Ausabale Chasm opens Saturday, May 4, nearly a month earlier than usual, and sponsors...
View ArticleAbolitionist ‘Law Breakers’ Being Honored in Champlain
This year’s August 17th Champlain Day festivities will honor two local “law breakers” — Noadiah and Caroline Mattocks Moore. They were key participants in the Champlain Line of the Underground...
View ArticleGerrit Smith’s 1845 Abolition North Country Tour
Late spring of 1845 found , a leader of the Liberty Party, touring the North Country in search of disaffected “Whigs and Democrats, whose intelligence and Christian integrity will not permit them to...
View ArticleStatewide Underground Railroad Group Forming
Meeting in the same Central New York church that hosted the state’s first Anti-Slavery convention in 1835, a group of Underground Railroad-related organizations (museums, churches, and associations)...
View ArticleCuomo Eulogy Echoes Lincoln, Seward
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s eloquent eulogy last week for his father, Mario M. Cuomo, echoed both Abraham Lincoln and former New York Gov. William Seward, one of the leading abolitionists in political life....
View ArticleNew Underground RR Book Offers 1st Person Accounts
The new book, Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City (McFarland, 2015), offers first person accounts of the clandestine efforts to help escaping slaves. Drawing on...
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UGRR Conference: Milestones on the Road to Freedom
The 2013 Underground Railroad Public History Conference in the Capital District this year is marking three major milestones: the Emancipation Proclamation 150 years ago, the death of Harriet Tubman 100...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Yorkers Rejected Black Voting Rights
In 1846, New York voters rejected equal voting rights for black males by a wide margin — 71% to 29%.This rejection helped persuade Gerrit Smith to start his Timbuctoo colony in the Adirondacks. His...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Preservation Fight At Manhattan Underground RR Site
Manhattanites are agitating on behalf of the home of one of the city’s leading 19th Century agitators–Abigail Hopper Gibbons. She and her husband James S. Gibbons ran a strongly documented Underground...
View ArticleBlack History Progams at Adirondack Prison
The Adirondack Correctional Facility at Raybrook is hosting a series of special Black History Month programs for inmates that focus on 19th Century stories of African-Americans in the North...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Abolitionist History Season Getting An Early Start
The Abolitionist History season is starting early this year.First, the North Star Underground Railroad Museum at Ausabale Chasm opens Saturday, May 4, nearly a month earlier than usual, and sponsors...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Abolitionist ‘Law Breakers’ Being Honored in Champlain
This year’s August 17th Champlain Day festivities will honor two local “law breakers” — Noadiah and Caroline Mattocks Moore. They were key participants in the Champlain Line of the Underground...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gerrit Smith’s 1845 Abolition North Country Tour
Late spring of 1845 found , a leader of the Liberty Party, touring the North Country in search of disaffected “Whigs and Democrats, whose intelligence and Christian integrity will not permit them to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Statewide Underground Railroad Group Forming
Meeting in the same Central New York church that hosted the state’s first Anti-Slavery convention in 1835, a group of Underground Railroad-related organizations (museums, churches, and associations)...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cuomo Eulogy Echoes Lincoln, Seward
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s eloquent eulogy last week for his father, Mario M. Cuomo, echoed both Abraham Lincoln and former New York Gov. William Seward, one of the leading abolitionists in political...
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