Greetings - i find this part of US and Detroit history totally fascinating. I had no idea that Second Baptist Church played such a pivotal role in the Underground Railway. If you ever go to Detroit drop into Second Bapist and take a tour at the end of the service. By the way only 70 miles from Detroit is Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site an open-air museum and African American history centre near Dresden, Ontario, Canada, that includes the home of Josiah Henson, a former slave, author, abolitionist, and minister, who, through his 1849 autobiography The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's title character in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The 5-acre (20,000 m2) complex is part of the original 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land purchased in 1841 to establish the Dawn Settlement, a community for escaped slaves. I mention this because my reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin as a kid had a profound effect on me.
This is a little piece of history that you don't think about when you think of Detroit. Thank you sharing that piece of Detroit history with us.
Greetings - i find this part of US and Detroit history totally fascinating. I had no idea that Second Baptist Church played such a pivotal role in the Underground Railway. If you ever go to Detroit drop into Second Bapist and take a tour at the end of the service. By the way only 70 miles from Detroit is Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site an open-air museum and African American history centre near Dresden, Ontario, Canada, that includes the home of Josiah Henson, a former slave, author, abolitionist, and minister, who, through his 1849 autobiography The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's title character in her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The 5-acre (20,000 m2) complex is part of the original 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land purchased in 1841 to establish the Dawn Settlement, a community for escaped slaves. I mention this because my reading of Uncle Tom's Cabin as a kid had a profound effect on me.
Fascinating!