The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends in Freedom
Velsor, Kathleen G.![The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends in Freedom](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/237/23734624/CHSBZCOP0323734624.jpg)
From the arrival of the Quakers in the seventeenth century to the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, Long Island played an important role in the Underground Railroad's work to guide slaves to freedom. In Old Westbury, the Post family established a major stop on the freedom trail with the help of an escaped Virginia slave. In Jericho, families helped escaping slaves to freedom from the present-day Maine Maid Inn. Elias Hicks helped f...