Dorothee von Huene Greenberg Book Talk: Flight to Freedom

Join Dorothee von Huene Greenberg for the presentation of her new book:  Flight to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in New York's Westchester and Dutchess Counties and beyond.

The focus of this book is a rarely mentioned track of the Underground Railroad in New York State. The track went from New Rochelle, to Pleasantville, then to the Jay family in Bedford, to David Irish on Quaker Hill in Pawling, and possibly on to a recently confirmed station in Albany, New York. From there fugitives could have gone on to other New York homes before crossing the Niagara River to freedom in Canada. The book, containing many images, gives details about the individuals on this track, but also new facts about persons on both sides of the Atlantic whose dedicated human rights activism and research shed new light on Africa, its people and culture, which helped end slavery in Britain and the United States.

Dorothee von Huene Greenberg Ph. D., is Professor Emerita of English at Pace University. Born in Germany, she fled from the Russians with her family in 1945, grew up in Maine, and came to New York to teach at Pace University.  It was the diverse student body that inspired her to learn more about African-American history and led to the writing of Flight to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in New York’s Westchester and Dutchess Counties and Beyond.