Exhibitions

Brooklyn Abolitionists Brooklyn Abolitionists This major, long-term exhibit opens on January 15, 2014 and explores the lesser-known heroes of Brooklyn’s anti-slavery movement — ordinary residents, black and white — who shaped their neighborhoods, city and nation with a revolutionary vision of freedom and equality. For opening times and directions please visit brooklynhistory.org Weeksville: Lived Experiences In Pursuit of Freedom…

US Department of Education Resources

…torical Society, Irondale Ensemble Project and Weeksville Heritage Center, this project, the first of its kind, comprises original scholarly research; a series of exhibitions at the three partner sites, a curriculum for teachers and their students, grades 4-12; an original theater piece that premiered at the Irondale Theater in May of 2012; a new website; a public memorial in downtown Brooklyn to honor the anti-slavery movement in Brooklyn; walki…

Funders

…an, and Daniel Squadron; New York State Assembly Members James Brennan, Karim Camara, Steven Cymbrowitz, Rhoda Jacobs, Hakeem Jeffries, Joseph Lentol, Alan Maisel, Joan Millman, Annette Robinson, Darryl Towns; New York City Council Members Bill de Blasio, Vincent Gentile, Letitia 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 America…

Introduction

…eir anti-slavery agenda. But their vision of a culturally diverse society threatened a nation deeply rooted in racism, inequality, and the politics and economics of slavery. While figures such as William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and John Brown have come to dominate abolitionist narratives, they were joined by countless others who also fought for an end to slavery and whose important contributions have been largely forgotten. In Pursuit…

Glossary

Abolitionist A radical activist who calls for an immediate end to slavery, political and legal equality for African Americans, and denounces colonization schemes. Antebellum The time period before the Civil War. Confederate States A group of united southern states that formed the Confederate States of America, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. T…

About the Project

…er Babits, Clark University Michael Chui, New York University Christine Griffiths, Bard Graduate Center Teresa Iacobelli, Rockefeller Archives Sarah Moazeni, Wellesley College Emy Pagano, Hunter College CUNY Debbie-Ann Paige, College of Staten Island CUNY Maggie Schreiner, New York University Heather Wilson, New York University Brooklyn Historical Society brooklynhistory.org Current Staff Elizabeth Call, Head of Reference and User Services Marcia…