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Barney L. Ford Building
The building at 1514 Blake Street was one of the...
British Fort
British Fort, a National Historic Landmark, like...
Bruin's Slave Jail
The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1854), described h...
Riley-Bolten House
The Riley/Bolten House is associated with Rev...
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...
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National...
Liberty Farm
Liberty Farm was the home of Abby Kelley Fost...
William Ingersoll Bowditch House
An important stop on the Underground Railroad ou...
Abyssinian Meeting House
The Abyssinian Meeting House (1828), the only do...
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Barney L. Ford Building
The building at 1514 Blake Street was one of the earliest commercial successes for Barney L. Ford, a pivotal black leader in the early history of Colorado. Ford was a black pioneer, businessman, civic leader and politician who actively ...
British Fort
British Fort, a National Historic Landmark, like Fort Mose in St. John's County, Florida, is a precursor site to the Underground Railroad, demonstrating that resistance to slavery arose decades before abolitionism became organized and influential. Located in northwest Florida's ...
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 ...
Riley-Bolten House
The Riley/Bolten House is associated with Reverend Josiah Henson (1789-1883), whose memoirs were used to develop the main character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Riley farm where the house stood was where Henson lived ...
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, ...
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, is a garden cemetery founded in 1831 and located on a 175-acre site near the Charles River on the Cambridge-Watertown border. While the site of many illustrious abolitionist burials, it is ...
Liberty Farm
Liberty Farm was the home of Abby Kelley Foster, outspoken abolitionist and early suffragist, and her husband, Stephen Symonds Foster, from 1847 until 1881. Born in 1810, Abby Kelley was raised as a Quaker and developed the same spirit ...
William Ingersoll Bowditch House
An important stop on the Underground Railroad outside Boston, Massachusetts was the William Ingersoll Bowditch House. The Bowditch House is a modest example of mid-19th century wooden cottages, L-shaped with Gothic Revival elements. Built in the planned suburban community ...
Abyssinian Meeting House
The Abyssinian Meeting House (1828), the only documented surviving 19th century frame meetinghouse in the downtown wards of Portland, is the historical, religious, educational and cultural center of Portland's 19th century African American population. It is the earliest meetinghouse ...
