Upstate’s forgotten abolitionists: Rev. Beriah Green was abolition’s ’master-thinker and teacher’
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Posted Feb 18, 2021
Abolitionist Beriah Green was President at the Oneida Institute. National Abolition Hall of Fame and MuseumNational Abolition Hall of Fame
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Upstate New York was a hotbed in the 19th century for the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Names like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Gerrit Smith are familiar. But there were also valiant figures from the region, white and Black, who fought for the end of slavery whose names have faded into history.
During this Black History Month, after searching through old newspapers and websites, we take a look back at some of Upstate New York’s forgotten abolitionists.