A new walking tour of Downtown Brooklyn shares the story of the borough's free Black communities in the 19th century and highlights its little-known role in the fight to abolish slavery.

Mama Joy’s Abolitionist Waking Tour is hosted by Friends of Abolitionist Place, an organization dedicated to preserving the Black history of the downtown MetroTech, an area that has seen major growth in residential and office towers since the 2000s. 

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