The memorial plaque on the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, Phillips Street, on the Black Heritage Trail, Boston, MA.
The memorial plaque on the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, Phillips Street, on the Black Heritage Trail, Boston, MA. Lewis Hayden was born a slave in 1816 in Lexington, Kentucky. After escaping slavery via the Underground Railroad to Detroit, he moved to Boston with his wife Harriet and soon became a leader in the abolitionist movement. The house was built in 1833 with the Hayden's moving in as tenants around 1849. In 1850, Southern slave owners were given legal sanction by the Fugitive Slave Act to retrieve their runaway slaves. Boston ceased to be a haven for escaped slaves. Hayden and his wife, Harriet, turned their home into an Underground Railroad station. William and Ellen Craft, a fugitive couple who masqueraded as master and slave, were sheltered here as were countless other fugitive blacks. (notes from the Black Heritage Trail web site)
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Location: Lewis Hayden House, Phillips Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Photo credit: © Maurice Savage / Alamy / Afripics
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