• The church where Elizabeth Jennings was organist, and where she was heading the day of the assault, was the First Colored American Congregational Church, on Sixth Street near the Bowery. The church was torn down long ago.
• The Jennings family home was at 167 Church Street in Manhattan. Today it is a six-story apartment building with a flower shop and café on the ground floor.
• The sign that reads ELIZABETH JENNINGS PLACE is at the corner of Spruce Street and Park Row. The actual location of the streetcar stop where the assault on Elizabeth Jennings began is at Pearl Street and Park Row. (Park Row was previously called Chatham Street.)
• The corner where the streetcar stopped, a policeman came on board, and Elizabeth was ejected from the car was at the corner of Walker Street and the Bowery. Today this intersection is known as Bowery and Canal.
• The New York Municipal Slave Market was located where Wall Street met the East River.
• The old building of Harper & Brothers (publisher of this book) was at 331 Pearl Street.
• The African Burial Ground National Monument is at 290 Broadway between Duane and Reade streets.