Spaces of Danger: Navigating Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Underground Railroad Consortium of NYS 194 Livingsston Avenue, Albany, NYAcross the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and North America, enslaved Africans lived their lives under constant threat to themselves and their families. Even for free men and women, everywhere lay the risk of danger, displacement and death. Often, their response was to flee, to run, to self-emancipate, sometimes with help from the Underground…