Freetown, Long Island - Allison Manfra McGovern commentary
Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) - Un podcast de Columbia University
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Freetown, East Hampton, Long Island Freetown is a small, unincorporated hamlet within the Town of East Hampton, located along Three Mile Harbor Road between Jackson Street and Abraham’s Path. Following the passage of the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1799 in New York State, John Lyon Gardiner and other wealthy local slave-owners settled newly freed slaves in Freetown.
