Walking Tour: African-American Freedom Trail October 17, 2009

Walk in the path of Frederick Douglass, one of the city's greatest Underground Railroad "passengers," who arrived as a runaway slave, disguised as a sailor, at a Hudson River dock in 1838. The tour uses historical documentation to follow Douglass's trail through Manhattan's early free Africian-American community, known as Little Africa (now known as Tribeca). Visit the historic sites of the city's first black churches, boarding houses, newspapers, and other locations of the African-American Freedom Trail. The tour concludes at the colonial-era African Burial Ground, where some 20,000 African men, women, and children were interred in the 17th and 18th centuries.