Listen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground Railroad

What was the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, a book by Harriet Jacobs
Frederick Douglass & the FQMM

No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass
Austin Steward’s Farmington Friends

Austin Steward: Escaped to freedom
William Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason Reynolds

Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer, historian, and Underground Railroad supporter.
Mary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained

The Edmonson sisters’ ordeal was a national news story