Moving Toward Freedom: The Underground Railroad and Abolition Movement in Oneida County

 Join Mary Hayes Gordon for a lecture on the history of the Abolition Movement and the Underground Railroad in Oneida County.

 Mary Hayes Gordon is co-chair of the Oneida County Freedom Trail Commission, which researches and documents Underground Railroad and Abolition activity in the region. Her interest in this subject developed when she documented the history of her home in New Hartford, which was a station on the Underground Railroad. She is a contributing author to “We Took Ourselves to Liberty” a county-wide resource study for the National Park Service, led by Dr. Judith Wellman. She and co-chair Dr. Jan DeAmicis give guided tours of Underground Railroad and Abolition sites in Utica, which they have also developed into a self-guided walking tour. Hayes Gordon specializes in presenting the history of everyday people who did the work to change our world.