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Mapping the American Past (MAAP) illustrates places and moments that have shaped the long history of African Americans in New York City.
Booker T. Washington House
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856, and labored on the Burroughs tobacco farm in Virginia. Nine years later, he and his family were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the salt mines while attending school.
Mapping the African American Past (MAAP)
Mapping the American Past (MAAP) illustrates places and moments that have shaped the long history of African Americans in New York City.
