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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…

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…

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…

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…

The Rise and Fall of the Florence Settlement

Virtual via Zoom

A panel of researchers, Jessica Harney of the Camden Central School District, Matthew Kirk, Principal Investigator/VP Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. and Charles E. Vandrei, Agency Historic Preservation Officer, Archaeologist, Division of Lands and Forests, NYSDEC, will provide an introductory presentation on the Florence Settlement, a settlement for free formerly enslaved people in the town of Florence. Research from archeological digs, archival searches, and more will be presented along with video clips of the site as it is…