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Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers – an exhibit celebrating Black Women Activists

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers Come view the first such exhibit to be installed at The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence. Yours for the Oppressed, Harriet Myers features pieces chosen by our museum’s Special Collections curator in honor of Black  Women’s contributions to social justice in America. The exhibition centers around an 1860 letter…

People of Courage, People of Hope, Seekers of Justice

Virtual via Zoom

A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill Paul and Mary Liz Stewart of the Underground Railroad Education Center will discuss the myths versus the truth of the Underground Railroad…

Free People of Color: a Three-Part Presentation Uncovering Different Experiences Within the African American Community of 19th-Century Albany – Albany History Fair by Historic Cherry Hill

Online

A Zoom Meeting Livestreamed on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/historiccherryhill Moderated by Dr. Kori Graves, Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, this three-part presentation will shed light on the varying experiences of free people of color in an emerging community in 19th-century Albany. Kathryn Kosto, Executive Director of Albany County Historical Association will present on…

The UGRR in Dutchess County

Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project P.O. Box 3647, Arlington, New York

In the middle decades of the 18th Century, the Oblong Meeting at Pawling - along with other Quaker communities - were spreading across eastern Dutchess County and points beyond. The area would go on to boast the largest settlement of Quakers outside of Philadelphia. Almost from the beginning, these Quakers found themselves at the forefront…

Work Party – fun in the sun!

The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence 194 Livingston Avenue, Albany, NY, United States

Put on the garden gloves, pick up the rake, and off you go! Would you prefer to work with clippers or a shovel? How about a lawn mower or pitch fork? Are you a gardener? Are you a carpenter? All sorts of garden and grounds activities fill up work party days. Join in the fun.…

The Lives of Enslaved People Through the Objects They Left Behind

Virtual via Zoom

Join archaeologists from the NYS Museum, NYS Bureau of Historic Sites, Hartgen Archaeological  Associates, and the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and HIstoric Preservation for a conversation on how we can interpret through material culture the lives of enslaved people otherwise absent form the historical record. Preregistration at https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/7640952 is required in order to receive a…

Annette Gordon-Reed Honored by Archives Partnership Trust

Cultural Education Center 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, New York

The Empire State Archives and History Award acknowledges the outstanding contributions by a national figure to advance the understanding and uses of history in society. Honoree Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard. Gordon-Reed won sixteen book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award…

Spaces of Danger: Navigating Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley

Underground Railroad Consortium of NYS 194 Livingsston Avenue, Albany, NY

Across the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean and North America, enslaved Africans lived their lives under constant threat to themselves and their families. Even for free men and women, everywhere lay the risk of danger, displacement and death. Often, their response was to flee, to run, to self-emancipate, sometimes with help from the Underground…

New York and the Illegal Slave Trade During the Civil War Era

Hudson River Maritime Museum 50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY

New York was the last slaving port in the Americas. Long after Congress banned the trade, hundreds of ships were leaving the wharfs of Manhattan bound for the African coast. This talk, drawn from the author's new book, The Last Slave Ships (Yale University Press), describes who ran the trade and how, why law enforcement…