African Heritage

Bill of Sale: Dick

DCHS Collections Documents of Enslavement A Fishkill man named Dick is sold by James Slight to Thomas Parker October 30,…

9 months ago

Medical Treatment of Enslaved “Jack”

Gilder Lehrman Documents Related to Locsl Enslavement June 30, 1783 Rhinebeck's renowned medical doctor Ananias Cooper, writes to Robert Livingston…

10 months ago

Pre-Civil War Maritime Adventure

Dutchess County Free Black Communities:Opportunities & Risks of Maritime Adventure Before the Civil War We are grateful for the ongoing…

2 years ago

AfAm Burials Rhinebeck

Below: The story of Andrew Frazier, the ancestor. The only Black family with a large plot. Adjacent to and facing,…

3 years ago

Guide to the Study of Local Black History

Starting Places People 1941 VoicesInterviews by Manet Fowler Places AME Zion ChurchWalter M. Patrice Collection Things Freedom for SaleMan buys…

3 years ago

NYS Abolition

 "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" At the heart of Frederick Douglass's 1852 pointed question was the unmistakable…

3 years ago

Bill of Sale Four Persons

DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement Two adult men, and adult woman, and a young boy are sold in 1775.

3 years ago

Slavery: Record of Self-Purchase

DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement Bartholome Noxon, Jr., records payments by his "negro boy Cezar" who literally purchases his own…

3 years ago

Manumission Approval

DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement In this document we see the certification by the overseers of the poor of the…

3 years ago

Slavery: Bill of Sale

DCHS Collections Documents of Enslavement A woman named Rachel is "sold" to Christian Tobias on February 4, 1771 Know all…

3 years ago