One summer evening in 1829, after returning to New York City from a voyage to Cuba as a cabin boy, Henry Highland Garnet — then just 13 — learned his family home had been deserted and its ...

NEW YORK - A peaceful playground in Williamsburg bears the name of Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet. Two miles away in DUMBO is a park named after Susan Smith McKinney Steward. These are not the only ...