Yesterday, the university organized an activity called The Black Heritage trip. we visited many place about some celebrities' house. I do a presentation about a famous people, and his name is Lewis Hayden. He 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. In Boston Hayden's political activities were based in the clothing store he owned on Cambridge Street, and in his home here on Phillips Street.
The house was built in 1833. Hayden moved in as a tenant around 1849. Francis Jackson, treasurer of the Vigilance Committee, a radical abolitionist organization, purchased the house in 1853, possibly to assure that Hayden would not be harassed in his Underground Railroad activities.
I think this activity is so meaningful for students to learn American history. we can understand more imformation and knowledge about those great celebrity.
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