New York

NEW YORK CITY

Following the final abolition of slavery in New York in 1827, New York City emerged as one of the largest pre-Civil War metropolitan concentrations of free African-Americans, and many institutions were established to advance the community in the antebellum period.

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The New-York Historical Society

Weeksville Heritage Center

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Apollo Theater