http://pursuitoffreedom.org Brooklyn Abolitionists Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:30:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 http://pursuitoffreedom.org/for-educators/#comment-3 Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:23:40 +0000 http://pursuitoffreedom.org/?page_id=138#comment-3 […] The exhibit up at the Historical Society at first seems very small, especially compared to the New-York Historical Society’s many-roomed exhibit, Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn from a few years ago. But the timeline wrapping around the gallery along with the profiles of many activists, both famous and less so, offers a detailed portrait of the varying activist tactics of black and white abolitionists in Brooklyn. The exhibit also makes use of reproductions of historical documents as well as displaying some originals, allowing visitors to interact with letters, diaries, petitions, newspapers, and other documents usually only seen by historians working in archives. The exhibit also extends into the city with a walking tour and on the web through the well-designed online collection of documents and lesson plans. […]

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