Greenwich Village Slave History Walking Tour
Antiracism Ministries
April 26 at 1pm
The Anti-Racism Change Team invites you to participate in a walking tour to engage with the history of slavery in the Village. The tour will be led by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (Village Preservation) and last about one hour. We will depart from Coffee Hour after the 11:15am Mass. There is a suggested donation of $10 to participate in the tour. Please RSVP to the Parish Office.
The walking tour provides a sweeping picture of the African American presence in the Village, beginning with the seventeenth-century Land of the Blacks in what is today Washington Square Park. It covers the nineteenth-century neighborhood south of Washington Square Park known as Little Africa, the earlier site of Abyssinian Baptist Church, and the residence of leading African American abolitionists Henry Highland Garnet and Sarah Smith Garnet. It also includes the residence of John Jay II, the grandson of Chief Justice John Jay, and the author of the Episcopal Diocese of New York’s resolution condemning slavery. Presented at the diocesan convention in 1860 but tabled then, the resolution was finally passed at the 2019 convention.