Starting Places People 1941 VoicesInterviews by Manet Fowler Places AME Zion ChurchWalter M. Patrice Collection Things Freedom for SaleMan buys…
Big Moves & Intimate Gestures. Why Lafayette's approach to equality has meant so much to so many. Below is a…
"What to the slave is the 4th of July?" At the heart of Frederick Douglass's 1852 pointed question was the unmistakable…
DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement Two adult men, and adult woman, and a young boy are sold in 1775.
DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement Bartholome Noxon, Jr., records payments by his "negro boy Cezar" who literally purchases his own…
DCHS Collections: Documents of Enslavement In this document we see the certification by the overseers of the poor of the…
DCHS Collections Documents of Enslavement A woman named Rachel is "sold" to Christian Tobias on February 4, 1771 Know all…
Remembering World War One Recognizing the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, DCHS published two consecutive Yearbooks…
The words of Frederick Douglass as spoken at College Hill on Emancipation Day, 1858, in contemporary expression. Performed under the…
The map below (drawn 2012 based on 1849 map courtesy of Historic Red Hook) shows a 1/3rd acre plot with…