New York and Slavery Lower Manhattan Walking Tour

Friday, May 23, 2008

The tour will be led African American History and United States History students from Law, Government and Community Service Magnet High School, Cambria Heights, Queens. All teachers are welcome to bring their classes for the FREE tour.

Other than at the colonial era African American Burial Ground, which was uncovered during excavations for a federal office building in 1991, these sites, and slavery in New York in general, have been erased from historical memory. There is not even an historical marker at the South Street Seaport in the financial district of Manhattan where enslaved Africans were traded in the 17th century and were illegal slaving expeditions were planned and financed up until the time of the American Civil War.

You may download a printable brochure about the tour by clicking here

Be sure to check out the New York and Slavery rap by clicking here

To read more about the tour, see the “New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance” curriculum guide available at: http://www.nyscss.org/resources/publications/NYandSlavery.cfm

For more information, contact Dr. Alan Singer, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hofstra University, at 516-463-5853 or catajs@hofstra.edu You may also contact Michael Pezone at: zenmap@aol.com

Directions

At 11 AM the tour begins at 1 Police Place at the red sculpture. It ends at South Street Seaport at 1 PM.

Leave 20 minutes by subway from Penn Station. Take the R or W south to City Hall. Walk north on Broadway to Duane and go right on Duane to the Burial Ground. To 1 Police Plaza, take the R or W to the same stop, walk north to Chambers and go right on Chambers to 1 Police Plaza. You will see the red sculpture in front of you.

From Brooklyn, Queens, or the Bronx. The 4, 5, 6, J, M, and Z all go to the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall stop. 1 Police Plaza is directly outside.

Click Here for a map of the tour route