Games

…ti-slavery ideals, and create your own anti-slavery propaganda. It Happened in Brooklyn IN PURSUIT OF FREEDOM WRITE A POEM *Best viewed in Google Chrome & Safari IT HAPPENED in BROOKLYN Click on the titles on the right for additional information. Drag the circles to their proper locations on the map. Havemeyer, Townsend & Co. Sugar Refinery Havemeyer,Townsend & Co. Sugar Refinery opened on the Williamsburg Waterfront in 1856. Sugar…

A Gradual Emancipation (1783 – 1827)

…al torture endured under slavery, Jea seized the opportunity to convert to Christianity and learned to read and write. In 1789, at the age of sixteen, he was manumitted. It is difficult to say exactly why Jea was freed, but occasionally Christian slaveholders faced the moral dilemma of enslaving their fellow Christians. With a new physical and spiritual freedom, Jea traveled as a preacher across the United States, West Indies, and Europe and shar…

US Department of Education Resources

…African American Experience (Heinz History Center, 2013), groundbreaking research displayed in the exhibit and online microsite, scholarly lectures at the museum or through our partnership with the Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) at Carnegie Mellon University, an online curriculum guide for teachers and educators, a film series at and in collaboration with Carnegie Library Homewood Branch, and an urban garden pr…

Abolitionist Biographies

…so an engraver and created portraits of the Amistad freedom fighters including Joseph Cinque. Jocelyn’s funeral service was held at the New New-England Congregational Church on South 9th Street, Williamsburg. African American men and women attended his funeral. New York abolitionist Charles Ray called Jocelyn “one of the bravest advocates of the anti-slavery cause.” MOREL, Junius Junius Morel 1801/ 1806 – 1874 Journalist, Lecturer, Politica…

Timeline

…al torture endured under slavery, Jea seized the opportunity to convert to Christianity and learned to read and write. In 1789, at the age of sixteen, he was manumitted. It is difficult to say exactly why Jea was freed, but occasionally Christian slaveholders faced the moral dilemma of enslaving their fellow Christians. With a new physical and spiritual freedom, Jea traveled as a preacher across the United States, West Indies, and Europe and shar…

Crisis Decade (1850 – 1860)

…Brooklyn Historical Society. Church Debates on the Fugitive Slave Law “If Law cannot be executed, it is time to write the epitaph of your country!” Ichabod Spencer preached an entirely different kind of message at Second Presbyterian Church, located at Clinton and Fulton. According to Spencer it was not slavery that was on trial. Rather, the future of the Union and its preservation was at stake. The underground rail road. William Still. 1872. Sla…

Funders

…James, Christine Quinn, Domenic Recchia, Albert Vann and David Yassky. In Pursuit of Freedom is assisted by a grant from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, made possible by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior….

Civil War & Beyond (1861 – 1867)

…1835 by Anna Shotwell and Mary Murray, two white Quaker women, the Colored Orphan Asylum provided an essential service in antebellum New York. For African Americans living in poverty, the Asylum offered a temporary refuge. Parents could send the children to the asylum to receive better care – often an agonizing decision –while they improved their own economic circumstances at home. On February 22, 1860, organizers held a four-day fair at Montagu…

Abolitionist Brooklyn (1828 – 1849)

…hered their anti-slavery agenda. It took advantage of newer print technologies that allowed for materials to be cheaply mass-produced. Anti-slavery propaganda included illustrated periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides. The abolitionists bombarded the federal postal service with anti-slavery materials. Lewis Tappan led the postal campaign despite threats of violence. Thousands of anti-slavery publications were sent to post offices in…

Glossary

…rom the United States between 1860 and 1861. Draft A system for selecting individuals from a group for military service. Emancipation A system under which people are treated as property, to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Enslavement/ Slavery A system under which people are treated as property, to be bought and sold, and are forced to work. Fugitive One who flees or tries to escape slavery. Kings County Kings County, New York original…