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,…

1 year 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…

1 year 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