New! Black History in Downtown Brooklyn

Unsung heroes walked our streets—it’s time their stories were told. 

With Suzanne Spellen and Morgan Munsey

Brooklyn has been home to both enslaved and free African Americans since the Dutch landed in the early 1600s. Slavery ended in New York State in 1827. By the next decade, most of Brooklyn’s black population was settled in what is now DUMBO and Downtown Brooklyn. Here were homes, schools, businesses and churches. Mid-19th century Brooklyn was a hotbed of organized Abolitionist activity, with both black and white activists who changed the course of American history. This tour celebrates these people, and takes you to where they lived and worked.

Saturday, February 17
2:00 PM

Tickets:
Member: $20
Non-member: $30