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MANY ROADS TO FREEDOM: TIMELINE
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| Digital Collections -> Pathfinders -> Many Roads to Freedom -> Timeline |
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MANY ROADS TO FREEDOM: TIMELINE
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| 1700's | 1790's | First settlers to arrive in what is now Rochester include African Americans | |
| 1800's | 1818 | Colonel Nathaniel Rochester comes to Rochester with his freed slaves | |
| Austin Steward buys land in Rochester; becomes a merchant | |||
| 1827 | Slaves in New York State are emancipated | ||
| Steward delivers Emancipation Day speech on July 5 | |||
| A.M.E. Zion Church is organized in Rochester | |||
| 1830's | Rochester becomes known for its Underground Railroad havens | ||
| 1831 | Austin Steward leaves Rochester for Canada to help establish emigrants in the Wilberforce community | ||
| 1833 | Great Britain passes Abolition of Slavery Act | ||
| 1834 | Abolitionist paper Rights of Man is begun by William C. Bloss | ||
| 1838 | Mount Hope Cemetery is dedicated; becomes graveyard of abolitionists, suffragists, and Civil War soldiers, among others | ||
| 1839 | Abolitionist paper Rochester Freeman is begun by Myron Holley | ||
| 1841 | Death of Myron Holley | ||
| 1847 | Frederick Douglass moves to Rochester; launches North Star abolitionist newspaper | ||
| 1848 | Douglass attends Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls | ||
| Northern Freeman abolitionist paper is published by Butts & Merrell | |||
| 1849 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is published in Boston | ||
| 1850 | Fugitive Slave Law is passed | ||
| 1851 | North Star is renamed Frederick Douglass' Paper | ||
| 1854 | Julia Griffiths' book Autographs for Freedom is published in Auburn | ||
| 1855 | My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass is published in Auburn | ||
| 1856 | The Harp of Freedom by George Washington Clark is published | ||
| 1857 | St. Mary's Hospital opens, later becomes first local hospital to accept Civil War wounded | ||
| Rochester public schools are desegregated | |||
| 1858 | The Irrepressible Conflict, a speech by William H. Seward, is delivered at Rochester's Corinthian Hall October 25th | ||
| 1859 | John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry occurs; Brown accomplice and Rochester abolitionist Shields Green is captured and hanged | ||
| Douglass flees to England to avoid capture as John Brown's accomplice | |||
| 1860 | Douglass returns home | ||
| 1861 | Southern states secede | ||
| Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated | |||
| Fort Sumter is attacked | |||
| First groups of New York State Volunteers are organized | |||
| 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg; local hero Colonel Patrick O'Rorke is killed in battle | ||
| Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation | |||
| 1864 | Rochester City Hospital opens and begins to accept wounded soldiers | ||
| 1865 | Civil War ends with the Surrender at Appomattox | ||
| Lincoln is assassinated | |||
| 1867 | Twenty-two years a Slave by Steward is published | ||
| 1872 | Douglass' home on South Avenue burns; the family takes up residence in Washington, D.C. | ||
| 1886 | Wonderful Eventful Life of Rev. Thomas James is published | ||
| 1892 | Dedication of Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Washington Square Park is attended by President Benjamin Harrison, many others | ||
| 1895 | Death of Frederick Douglass -- funeral and burial take place in Rochester | ||
| 1900's | 1906 | Death of Susan B. Anthony | |
| 1947 | Last G.A.R. veteran in New York State (at age 106) is celebrated in Rochester as the organization's New York chapter closes. He donates the local chapter's roster to the City of Rochester and Rochester Public Library | ||