Comments for In Pursuit of Freedom https://pursuitoffreedom.org Brooklyn Abolitionists Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:30:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 Comment on Abolitionist Biographies by Advocates Fight to Preserve Brooklyn Abolitionist Site - The New York History Blog https://pursuitoffreedom.org/abolitionist-biographies/#comment-37 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:30:08 +0000 http://pursuitoffreedom.org/?page_id=142#comment-37 […] and during the American Civil War, probably between 1851 and 1863, 227 Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn was the home of prominent abolitionists Thomas and Harriet Truesdell. The […]

]]> Comment on Abolitionist Biographies by Faculty Interview Series (Part IV) | NYU museum studies https://pursuitoffreedom.org/abolitionist-biographies/#comment-8 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:01:49 +0000 http://pursuitoffreedom.org/?page_id=142#comment-8 […] advertisement comes from an 1850 edition of The North Star, a black newspaper (January 25, 1850).  Junius C. Morel was the principal of the Weeksville school for […]

]]> Comment on Abolitionist Brooklyn (1828 – 1849) by » Remembering Joan Maynard – Weeksville Heritage Center Visionary https://pursuitoffreedom.org/abolitionist-brooklyn/#comment-4 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 18:22:09 +0000 http://pursuitoffreedom.org/?page_id=106#comment-4 […] Blacks, including Dr. Susan McKinney Steward, the state’s first Black female physician, and Henry C. Thompson, who was instrumental in the establishment of Brooklyn’s African Free School, a predecessor […]

]]> Comment on For Educators by Review of In Pursuit of Freedom Historians Against Slavery https://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 The exhibit also makes use of reproductions of historical documents as well as displaying some originals, allowing visitors to interact with letters, diaries, petitions, newspapers, and other documents usually only seen by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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