FreedomCon 2024 – From the Cataract House to Canada: Black Waiters and the Underground Railroad on the Niagara River Borderland
Virtual via ZoomAwe-inspiring and intensely dramatic, Niagara Falls attracts tourists from all over the world. Yet before the Civil War, it was also a crucial Underground Railroad crossing between the United States and Canada. For more than two decades, the all-Black wait staff at the Cataract House hotel rowed hundreds of men, women, and children across the…