On The Trail Of Brooklyn's Underground Railroad
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Originally published on HistoryNet.com.
Published Online: October 15, 2007 |
NY Times | 2007-10-12
Last month the City of New York gave Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn an alternate name: Abolitionist Place. It's an acknowledgment that long before Brooklyn was veined with subway lines, it was a hub of the Underground Railroad: the network of sympathizers and safe houses throughout the North that helped as many as 100,000 slaves flee the South before the Civil War.
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