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Discover Long Island's pivotal role in the Underground Railroad and the legacy that lives on today in this fascinating history and visitor's guide.
From the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an important role in the Underground Railroad's work to help enslaved people escape to freedom. Many of the safe houses are still standing today, and this informative volume provides all the information you need to see and explore this little-known chapter in Long Island history.
In Old Westbury, the members of the Westbury Meeting established a major stop on the freedom trail. In Jericho, families helped escaping slaves to freedom from the present-day Maine Maid Inn. Elias Hicks helped free 191 slaves himself and worked to create Underground Railroad safe houses in many northeastern cities. Some formerly enslaved people even established permanent communities across the island
From the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an important role in the Underground Railroad's work to help enslaved people escape to freedom. Many of the safe houses are still standing today, and this informative volume provides all the information you need to see and explore this little-known chapter in Long Island history.
In Old Westbury, the members of the Westbury Meeting established a major stop on the freedom trail. In Jericho, families helped escaping slaves to freedom from the present-day Maine Maid Inn. Elias Hicks helped free 191 slaves himself and worked to create Underground Railroad safe houses in many northeastern cities. Some formerly enslaved people even established permanent communities across the island
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NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1. Letter to Wilmer, August 4, 1939.
2. Shultz, Colonial Hempstead, 145.
THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS ON LONG ISLAND
3. Cornell, Adam and Anne Mott, ii.
4. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 6–8.
5. Rise and Growth, 6.
6. Ibid.; Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 6.
7. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 6.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Flushing Remonstrance, December 27, 1657.
11. Rise and Growth, 94.
12. Harrington, George Fox, 7, 9.
13. Ibid., 10–11.
14. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 65.
15. Ibid.
16. “Mennonites,” http://www.answers.com/topic/mennonites, Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History section.
17. Ibid.
18. Hicks family papers.
19. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 65.
20. See Lowry, Story of the Flushing Meeting House.
21. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 66.
22. Ibid., 28–29.
23. Wilson, “Quaker Hill Sociological Study,” 41.
24. Ibid., 26.
25. Ibid.
26. Forbush, Elias Hicks, 78.
27. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 66.
28. See Hicks, “Freeing of Slaves on Long Island”; Hicks family papers.
29. Martin, “Hicks Family on Quakers,” 88; Hicks family papers.
30. See Hicks, “Freeing of Slaves on Long Island”; Hicks family papers.
31. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 63.
32. Lowry, Story of the Flushing Meeting House, 14.
33. Martin, “Hicks Family on Quakers,” 88; Hicks family papers.
34. Martin, “Hicks Family on Quakers,” 88, 100; Hicks family papers.
THE FIRST FREE BLACK COMMUNITIES ON LONG ISLAND
35. Hodges, Root & Branch, 7–8.
36. Ibid.
37. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 55; Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
38. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 55.
39. Ibid.
40. Wilson, New York City’s African Slaveowners, 43.
41. See Woodson, Mind of the Negro.
42. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 61; Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
43. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 62; Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
44. Martin, “Hicks Family on Quakers,” 85; Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 62.
45. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 62.
46. Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
47. Ibid.
48. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 62; Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
49. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 62.
50. Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid.
53. Marcus, Discovering the African American Experience, 93–125.
54. Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Prude, “To Look Upon the ‘Lower Sort,’” 124–57.
58. Onderdonk, Long Island in the Olden Times.
59. Prude, “To Look Upon the ‘Lower Sort,’” 124–57.
60. Ibid. The table is in seven groups, with the ads by years 1716–50, 1752–60, 1761–75 and 1776–83.
61. Hartell, “Slavery on Long Island,” 62.
62. Ibid.
ELIAS HICKS
63. Forbush, Elias Hicks, 145–46.
64. Ibid., 3–4.
65. Ibid., 17–18.
66. Ibid., 24.
67. Ibid., 28.
68. Ibid., 31.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid.
71. Hicks, “Freeing of Slaves on Long Island.”
72. Martin, “Hicks Family on Quakers”; Hicks, “Freeing of Slaves on Long Island.”
73. Barbour et al., Quaker Crosscurrents, 74; Gaines, Charity Society, 2.
74. Barbour, Slavery and Theology, 4.
75. “Prize goods” were goods made by slaves, such as sugar, coffee, cotton and rice. Forbush, Elias Hicks, 144.
76. Drake, Quakers and Slavery, 116; Forbush, Elias Hicks, 145.
77. Hicks, Observations on the Slavery, 4, 5, 7–9, 20–22; Forbush, Elias Hicks, 147–48.
78. Forbush, Elias Hicks, 145–48.
79. James Mott was the son of John Mott, member of the Westbury Meeting. The Old Mott Homestead was a station on the Underground Railroad in Sands Point, Long Island, on Hempstead Harbor, running across to Premium Point in Westchester County, New York.
80. Drake, Quakers and Slavery, 117.
81. In 1827–28, the ...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Society of Friends on Long Island
- The First Free Black Communities on Long Island
- Elias Hicks: The Prophet from Jericho
- Quaker Families and Their Connections
- Jerusalem
- Jericho
- Old Westbury
- The Story of Levi Trusty
- The Underground Railroad Connection from North Carolina to Long Island
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author