Erie's Black History

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Across
  1. 4. In 1878, this African American began making his ice cream in Erie.
  2. 6. In the late 1820s and early 1830s this started in northwest Pennsylvania to help enslaved people escape to the North.
Down
  1. 1. By the early nineteenth century, this Township was home to the largest population of enslaved and free African Americans in northwest Pennsylvania.
  2. 2. In 1813, the Black population in Erie doubles as east coast Black sailors come to help this Naval leader.
  3. 3. The first black landowner in Erie County (1790s)
  4. 5. In 1827, this person establishes the community of Jerusalem north West Sixth Street and west of Sassafras Street for free persons of color and destitute whites.