The Freedom Trail Central New York was home to many of the most significant events and personalities of the underground railway and the women's rights movements.

• Editorial:  Preserving Our Heritage - Central New York's anti-slavery history is worthy of celebration.

  • Documenting Central New York's Freedom Trail  Syracuse could  soon have the largest concentration of nationally registered abolition and Underground Railroad sites in the country.

  • City's Rose Hill Cemetery holds history - The burial ground is the final resting place for many of Syracuse's early African Americans.

  • The Dual History of the Sabine House - Home's builder owned a slave, but son was an abolitionist.

  • Holding Back on Black Heritage - A professor of African-American studies at Syracuse University helps Syracuse's African-American community preserve its past.

• The Jerry Rescue

  • The Jerry Rescue

  • The Jerry Rescue Monument in Clinton Square

• Rev. J. W. Loguen

  • "The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman"  - While living in Syracuse, Loguen was a national leader in the abolition movement.

• Gerrit Smith

  • The Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum

  • Gerrit Smith's 1859 letter to the Jerry Rescue Committee

  • Gerrit Smith - Harper's Ferry and the Aftermath

• Harriet Tubman - The Harriet Tubman Home preserves the legacy of "The Moses of Her People" in the place where she lived and died in freedom.

• John Brown's Farm - John Brown established a farm to aid escaping slaves with land purchased from Gerrit Smith.

• Matilda Joslyn Gage - Active in woman's rights and underground railroad

• Retracing the Route to Freedom Anthony Cohen traveled 1,500 miles from Maryland to Canada, following in the footsteps of escaping slaves

• The Wesleyan Methodist Church This congregation was central to the underground railroad in Syracuse

Links

• Links to Underground Railroad Related Sites

• Oswego County Underground Railroad