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John Rodgers

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• Unearthing our Past –An article on Trinity Wall Street’s relationship to slavery in New York

Churches Related to This Person

• Trinity Church Wall Street, Manhattan   

John Rodgers represented the Manumission Society  petitioned Trinity Wall Street for land to build a school in 1787.   Since we did not have an image of John Rodgers we have represented by a picture  of the African Free School , the very first school for blacks in America founded in November 1787.

[Published Winter 2019]

 

Image of the African Free School