A new permanent exhibit at the Lower East Side’s Tenement Museum gives a 3-D view of what life was like for Black New Yorkers in the 1860s.
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“A Union of Hope: 1869” takes Tenement Museum visitors on a 75-minute tour through the museum as it spotlights the lives of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who lived in lower Manhattan during the 19th century. Joseph and Rachel Moore, and the information researchers who were able to find out about their lives, gave the museum the opportunity to fulfill a part of its mission it had long neglected. When Ruth Abram and Anita Jacobson founded the Tenement Museum in 1988, their original mission statement revealed that they wanted to tell the stories of all of New York’s tenement dwellers.
The recreation of what the Moore’s home looked like shows that Rachel—and the Irish woman living with them—had to store and clean the dirty laundry they took in as washerwomen in the front parlor room. This same room served as their kitchen and living space, and at night became the bedroom for the Irish woman and her son. Rachel, Joseph, and her daughter slept in the bedroom, where there were two beds and more space to relax.
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