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Hidden Stories of People of Color
Adirondack and Lake Champlain hidden stories provides the history of colored people that lived in this region in the eighteenth through the twenty-first century. Many of these individuals were ordinary working-class people that lived, loved, and thrived in the Northeast region of New York near the Canadian border.
Jacqueline Madison
Jacqueline Madison is the President of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association which oversees the North Star Underground Railroad Museum. She retired from Pfizer/Wyeth in 2010 as a Principal Toxicology Information Specialist for Drug Safety and has degrees in Chemistry and Library and Information Management.
Jackie is a Vietnam Veteran. Her husband is retired from the military and they have two daughters. She is a Rotarian. Her biggest contribution to the organization as the President was acquiring the building that houses the North Star Underground Railroad Museum in June 2019. She is an avid reader, grows grapes, makes wine, and recently started restoring old trunks.
In October 2019, she had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit a site that is believed to be an African American community composed of slaves and fugitives escaping slavery in St. Armand, Quebec. She has been researching working-class people of color that lived in the Adirondack and Lake Champlain region of New York and writing their stories on information that she has uncovered. These were individuals that lived from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century.
And in September 2021, Jackie produced a video on the Quaker Union in Peru, New York that focused on authentic hiding sites for formerly enslaved runaways located on the former farm of Stephen Keese Smith, an abolitionist and supporter of women’s rights.
My Mission
My mission is to uncover the hidden stories of working-class people of color that lived and worked in the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain Region of New York.
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