Presented by the African American Archive of Columbia County, in partnership with the Columbia County Historical Society
Presented by Dr. Myra Armstead
Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 3 p.m.
This free lecture in person at Hudson Area Library and online via Zoom
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Dr. Myra Armstead is Vice President for Academic Inclusive Excellence and Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies; and author of Freedom’s Gardener: Horticulture and the Hudson Valley in Ante-bellum America and Mighty Change; Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley; and “Lord, Please Don’t Take Me in August”: African Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs.
This talk will explore:
- How enslaved people were employed/utilized in the Hudson Valley and Columbia County
- Manumission — how and when it occurred, and the effect of rolling manumission on the movement of freed people
- Location/relocation of freed people in Columbia County
- Employment of half-free and freed persons in the region
- Examples of property holdings, accumulated and inherited wealth in Columbia County
- Black identity in the Hudson Valley
