User:Wil540 art/Notes/Category:Underground Railroad in New York (state)

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People:

James Hamlet (defendant) - also known as James Hamilton Williams, kidnapping victim under the 1850 fugitive slave act

Henry Long (defendant) - kidnapping victim under the fugitive slave act

Jacob R. Gibbs - anti-slavery activist, assisted 100s of run-away slaves

William P. Powell - veteran abolitionist, operated a boarding house for black sailors, which had moved several times but in 1850 was located at 330 Pearl Street, near the East River. Powell frequently hid escaped slaves in the building. Powell helped to found a new black organization, the Committee of Thirteen, dedicated to assisting fugitives seized in New York.

Albro and Mary Joseph Lyons - ran a boardinghouse for Black sailors on the East River docks, that also doubled as an Underground Railroad station for hundreds of enslaved people fleeing slavery in the South.

Committees:

New York City Vigilance Committee

Movements:

Abolitionism in New York City

Places:

70 Willow Street

86 Pierrepont Street

Church of the Pilgrims (Brooklyn, New York)

Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church (Brooklyn, New York)

George William and Anna Curtis House

Elliottville (Staten Island)