Underground Railroad Walk & African Burial Ground Visit - FREE In-Person Event

Underground Railroad Walk & African Burial Ground Visit
Saturday, April 30 - 9:00 AM

New York City was one of the most important locations on the Underground Railroad. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and many others have connections to the city. Le'ts take a semi-guided walk to see Manhattan Underground Railroad sites.
We'll also visit to the African Burial Ground National Historic Site, which is managed by the National Park Service. Our group visit will include the outdoor memorial. Afterwards you're encouraged to visit the indoor visitor center and museum but please note that doing so requires a reservation - details below.

Before the Event: N/A

Meeting Point: Outside the New York Stock Exchange (11 Wall Street). We'll then be mostly walking a mile up Broadway to Lipensenard and then south to the African Burial Ground National Monument.

Cost: FREE!

After the Event: Make the most of your visit to the African Burial Ground National Monument! The Indoor Visitor Center and Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. Reservations are required. I have made a 10:30 reservation just for myself. To make a reservation, please either call (212)238-4367 or email us at african_burial_ground@nps.gov. You can also try checking in with the museum when we arrive (no guarantee they'll have openings). Please note: we currently have a capacity limit of 10 visitors within the visitor center. If you stop by without a reservation, we may not be able to accommodate you.

https://www.nps.gov/afbg/index.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Burial_Ground_National_Monument

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African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway. The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a portion of what was the largest colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent, some free, most enslaved. Historians estimate there may have been as many as 10,000–20,000 burials in what was called the Negroes Burial Ground in the 1700s. The five to six acre site's excavation and study was called "the most important historic urban archaeological project in the United States." The Burial Ground site is New York's earliest known African-American cemetery; studies show an estimated 15,000 African American people were buried here.

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