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East Side House Settlement

This includes reenactments of the escape of slaves, such as Frederick Douglas.

Frederick Douglas

Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

John Dixon Long

Pictures of Slavery in Church and State; Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc. Etc. With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery was published for $1 in 1857 and was considered a major contribution to the case against slavery by Frederick Douglas and others.

Lipe Art Park

The park is located on an urban brownfield site where a multi-track train yard lay in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a yard whose round-house was the site of an important anti-slavery rally in 1852 at which the eminent abolitionist Frederick Douglas spoke.

see also

Esmond Edwards

Edwards was educated in New York City schools, including Frederick Douglas (J.H.S.139), Stuyvesant High School and City College of New York.