Sarah's Fire | Summer 26

Sarah's Fire 

Friday August 28th 2026

Thursday September 10th 2026

Length: 90 minutes 

The second of five in the core stories of the Black Gotham Experience that starts in 1664 in the small town known as Land of the Blacks on day two of British New York. Sarah’s Fire is a tale set on the southern tip of the island Manhattan that is home to both free and enslaved Black people. This walk illustrates the peculiar universe of urban slavery in a port city with deep ties to the sugar plantations of the West Indies. A key persona in this story is an enslaved woman named Sarah who is one of 29 people that participate in the first militarized Black rebellion on the island of Manhattan that took place April 6th 1712.

RSVPs for this walk will receive a free Battle in the Margins research brief. 

We meet up at Zuccotti Park; the site of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street encampment. 

Train Access: A, C, 2, 3, 4, 5 to Wall Street or Fulton Street; J train to Broad St; R, W to Cortlandt Street