Manhattan Slavery & Underground Railroad Walking Tour

introduction to the tour lower Manhattan—is the oldest part of New York City. The first Europeans to settle here were the Dutch in 1624, when the ship Nieuw Nederlandt (New Netherland)

We will also be visiting he old settling of New Amsterdam

Battery place state 3 and battery place
introduction to the tour lower Manhattan—is the oldest part of New York City. The first Europeans to settle here were the Dutch in 1624, when the ship Nieuw Nederlandt (New Netherland) 15 minutes

City, NY 10004-4300 Phillipse Well (On the left side of Pearl Street, outside Goldman Sachs Building)

In 1664, the British took control over the colony of New Netherland, resolving the century-long struggle between the two powers over ownership of the territory.

Federal Hall (26 Wall Street)

The building here was constructed in 1842 as the United States Custom House. The original Federal Hall, erected in 1700 as the second city hall of the colony of New York, no longer stands. The United States government came to life on this site where in 1789 George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States of America

“Even as antislavery gained white adherents, grassroots activism and a critique of white racism defined black abolitionism in New York. No issue weighed heavier on black New Yorkers than the threat of kidnapping as slave catchers from the South flooded into the city. David Ruggles

The new racial hierarchy that developed as a means to justify American slavery quickly became entrenched in American society. The degree to which this racial philosophy dictated Americans’ perceptions of the world is reflected in the four statues here outside the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House and National Museum of the American Indian.

We will be talking about the slaves that were buried in this place

NY 10004-1415 introduction to the Lenape people and the concept of the race Race, in other words, is a purely social construct with no genetic basis that arose in order to legitimize the institution of American slavery. Still, today, it seems that the belief in human races, carrying along with it the prejudice and hatred of racism, is so embedded in our culture and has been an integral part of our worldview for so long that many of us assume that it just must be true

Construction of the Fort Amsterdam, began in 1625 at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, where the East and Hudson Rivers meet. The fort, named was intended to protect New Netherland from attack and also served as the center of trading activity