From the Irish fleeing the great famine of the 19th century to survivors of the Holocaust, the Tenement Museum preserves the memories of immigrants who shaped New York: now, it will also tell the life of an African-American family, so that the story be “more honest“.
It is a narrow two-room apartment, with rustic floors and wooden furniture, impeccably tidy, where visitors enter. The laundry hangs in the kitchen, two beds fill the other room. On a fireplace, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States and architect of the abolition of slavery in 1865.
Welcome to Joseph and Rachel Moore, an African-American couple who huddled here, without running water, with three other residents : There’s Jane, sister-in-law from Rachel’s first marriage, Rose, an Irish immigrant, and her mixed-race son Louis, 14, lists Kathryn Lloyd, who is leading a pilot visit, ahead of its official launch after Christmas.
2023-12-27 11:17:28
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