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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…

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1824: Lafayette in Dutchess County

Big Moves & Intimate Gestures. Why Lafayette's approach to equality has meant so much to so many. Below is a…

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NYS Abolition

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

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Bill of Sale Four Persons

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

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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…

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Manumission Approval

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

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Slavery: Bill of Sale

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

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Over Here Traveling Exhibition

Remembering World War One Recognizing the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, DCHS published two consecutive Yearbooks…

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Expressions

The words of Frederick Douglass as spoken at College Hill on Emancipation Day, 1858, in contemporary expression. Performed under the…

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African American Burial Grounds: Red Hook

The map below  (drawn 2012 based on 1849 map courtesy of Historic Red Hook) shows a 1/3rd acre plot with…

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