Standing near the monument to a moment when Syracuse residents banded together to fight slavery in 1851, more than 50 people rallied Tuesday against a city mayoral candidate’s comparisons of the ...

On October 1, 1851, during arguably the city of Syracuse’s most important event — the famous Jerry Rescue — a young Black woman answered her mother’s door and was dragged into the tumult ...

In downtown Syracuse’s Clinton Square is the Jerry Rescue monument which recognizes and celebrates the Oct. 1, 1851 rescue of William “Jerry” Henry, an escaped slave from Missouri ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.