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Where to Learn About NYC’s Black History
This list of museums, burial grounds, and landmarks across New York City, highlights Bowne House as an Underground Railroad Safe House.
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Underground Railroad Safe Houses
Flushing, Queens
Flushing, Queens, has been documented as a part of the Underground Railroad—a clandestine network of people, houses, and routes that transported Africans escaping enslavement in the South to freedom in the North—and one of its most important stops was Bowne House. As the oldest building in Queens that was built in 1661, its rich history of three centuries documents the Bowne family’s abolitionist activities and role in anti-slavery movements, and not only is it an official New York City landmark, but it’s also on the National Register of Historic Places. An additional documented historic landmark connected to the Underground Railroad is the Flushing Quaker Meeting House, built in 1694 by John Bowne and other Quakers as a monument to early religious freedom in the colonial United States.- Kemi Ibeh, “Where to Learn About NYC’s Black History,” February 2022