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Abolitionist History in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

Underground Railroad Church Once Located in Greenwich Village Led Abolitionist Cause
John Brown and Edmonia Lewis: Civil Rights Crusaders Who Intersected in Greenwich Village
Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 814 Broadway
Pioneers Converge on MacDougal Street: Dr. Robert Hogan, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, and Sarah Smith Garnet
Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South
African Free School #3, 120 West 3rd Street
Sarah Smith Garnet: Suffragist, Principal, Villager
Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s St. James Presbyterian Church
Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church
Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Mother A.M.E. Zion Church
Beyond the Village and Back: Historic Weeksville, Brooklyn
James Varick, the Village, and Zion AME Church
Henry Highland Garnet and the Village
A History of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church
Thaddeus Hyatt: Trailblazing Greenwich Village Abolitionist and Inventor
14 Historic Sites of the Abolitionist Movement in Greenwich Village

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