Dive into the history of Nassau & Suffolk with archival stories, photos, videos and more. Only in Newsday Enslaved people used LI waterways as pathway to free ...
On a chilly night in 1838, James Lindsay Smith’s escape from slavery found him sleeping on cotton bales aboard a steamboat cruising on Long Island Sound. Even so, Smith, then on the cusp of freedom, ...
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