The inaugural Abolitionist Freedom Walk saw more than 100 people coming together on Sunday, Oct. 23 to recreate a walk 19th-century abolitionists took after being confronted by an angry mob.
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GALLERY: Abolitionist Freedom Walk - Oct. 23, 2022 (with VIDEO)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
Syracuse University women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack speaks at the first annual Abolitionist Freedom Walk in Canastota, where people reenacted the journey members of the New York Antislavery Society took after their first meeting ended by an angry mo
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
Canastota resident Vincent Doty takes on the role of James Caleb Jackson and recounts "his" attendance of the New York Antislavery Society in Utica that ended with Jackson and company being chased by an angry mob, invited to Peterboro by millionaire philanthropist Gerrit Smith, and ending with a long walk through Canastota to Peterboro.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
Madison County Historian Matthew Urtz unveils the new signs going up along the Rail Trail, the same path the New York Antislavery Society members did after being chased by a hostile mob and making their way to Peterboro.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
Event Organizer Marilyn Higgins speaks at the first annual Abolitionist Freedom Walk in Canastota, where people reenacted the journey members of the New York Antislavery Society took after their first meeting ended by an angry mob.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
The new signs going up along the same trail the New York Antislavery Society members did after being chased by a hostile mob and making their way to Peterboro.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
(Sentinel Photo by Charles Pritchard)
People tread the same path black and white abolitionists did in 1835 on Sunday as they start in Canastota and walk five miles as part of the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum's Abolitionist Freedom Walk.
The inaugural Abolitionist Freedom Walk saw more than 100 people coming together on Sunday to recreate a walk 19th-century abolitionists did after being confronted by an angry mob.
Organized by the National Abolition Hall of Fame, people from all over gathered to celebrate the ideal of freedom.
On Oct. 21, 1835, 600 men from across New York State — including many African Americans — met in the Bleeker Street Presbyterian Church in Utica, and their goal was to start an antislavery society.
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