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Between 1760 and 1761, Great Britain witnessed one of the largest slave insurrections in the history of its empire. Although the revolt took place on the island of Jamaica, the reverberations of this revolt stretched across the Atlantic Ocean and into the British North American colonies.
In this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Vincent Brown, author of Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press, 2020), joins us to investigate Tacky’s Revolt and how that revolt served as an eddy within the larger current of Atlantic warfare.
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The 2020 Peterboro Emancipation Day planned for August 1st, 2020 has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 7th, 2021 at the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark.
The Underground Railroad Coalition 
Preservation Long Island has announced a series of public roundtable events to be streamed as part of 
During COVID-19 school closures this spring, David Edelman’s students at Union Square Academy for Health Sciences High School created a virtual walking tour of sites in New York City with connections to slavery.
The Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State has announced the formation of a statewide committee to begin planning for the bicentennial of the legal abolition of 
As the last enslaved people living in New York State were officially freed on July 4th, 1827, celebrations reigned.