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Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described h...
John Brown's Headquarters
This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhou...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Beth...
Dorsey--Jones House
Between 1850 and 1859, the Dorsey-Jones House wa...
Jackson Homestead
The Jackson Homestead is a well-preserved Federa...
Nathan and Mary Johnson House
Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks livi...
John P. and Lydia Edwards House
As abolitionist Gerrit Smith's land agent, frien...
John Brown Farm and Gravesite
John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a ...
St. James AME Zion Church
Built in 1836, St. James AME Zion is believed to...
Johnson House
The Johnson House, a National Historic Landmark,...
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Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described how she employed her knowlege of Bruin's slave jail as background for her explosive 1852 novel,Uncle Tom's Cabin. In The Key, she described the escape of a number of slaves from ...
John Brown's Headquarters
This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhouse, was the headquarters from which John Brown (1800-1859) planned and executed his raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. Along with a small band of followers, he ...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, ...
Dorsey--Jones House
Between 1850 and 1859, the Dorsey-Jones House was the home of two escaped slaves, Basil Dorsey and Thomas H. Jones. Basil Dorsey, originally enslaved in Frederick County, Maryland, escaped slavery with his brothers after the denial of promised freedom ...
Jackson Homestead
The Jackson Homestead is a well-preserved Federal-style house in Newton, Massachusetts. Corroborating written reminiscences and oral tradition provide evidence that the house served as a station on the Underground Railroad. Timothy Jackson (1756-1814) built the family homestead in 1809 ...
Nathan and Mary Johnson House
Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who owned a block of properties including their longtime home and the neighboring old Friends meetinghouse. Nathan Johnson was an active abolitionist who assisted numerous fugitive slaves, ...
John P. and Lydia Edwards House
As abolitionist Gerrit Smith's land agent, friend, and colleague and as an engineer committed to public service, John Benjamin Edwards shaped Oswego's economic and cultural development for over sixty years. For at least sixteen of those years, he and ...
John Brown Farm and Gravesite
John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site, his home during the ten years leading up to the infamous 1859 raid on Harper's Ferrywhere he was killed. He requested to be ...
St. James AME Zion Church
Built in 1836, St. James AME Zion is believed to be the oldest church in Ithaca and one of the first of the AME Zion churches in the country. An Underground Railroad station, the church is located in a ...
Johnson House
The Johnson House, a National Historic Landmark, is significant for its role in the antislavery movement and the Underground Railroad. Philadelphia, especially the Germantown section of the city, was a center of the 19th-century American movement to abolish slavery, ...
