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Juneteenth Celebration in Potsdam Saturday

June 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Potsdam Juneteenth CelebrationThe third annual Potsdam community-wide Juneteenth Celebration, celebrating the culture of African-Americans and providing a space for Black voices to be honored, is set for Saturday, June 18th, at the Ives Park Gazebo. [Read more…] about Juneteenth Celebration in Potsdam Saturday

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History

North Country ‘Colors of Freedom Tour’ to Celebrate Juneteenth

June 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

colors-of-freedom-banner-2022Clinton and Essex counties were a center of the roiling abolition controversies before the Civil War, helping many freedom-seekers fleeing enslavement follow the Lake Champlain corridor to Canada in the 1830s, 1840s and 1850s.

A first-ever North Country Juneteenth celebration of the region’s role in the fight against slavery will highlight Underground Railroad work in the area, as well as prominent anti-slavery Quakers and abolitionist John Brown. [Read more…] about North Country ‘Colors of Freedom Tour’ to Celebrate Juneteenth

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Events, History Tagged With: Adirondack HIstory Museum, John Brown Lives, John Brown SHS, Juneteenth

Juneteenth at Genesee Country Village & Museum

June 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Juneteenth celebration courtesy GCV MuseumGenesee Country Village & Museum will host a celebration of Juneteenth, featuring stores of Black Americans in Western NY in the years following emancipation and the abolition of slavery in the United States on Saturday, June 18th. [Read more…] about Juneteenth at Genesee Country Village & Museum

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Genesee Country Village & Museum

Juneteenth Weekend Events in Madison County, NY

June 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Juneteenth: A Walk Through GalvestonThe National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOF) and the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark (GSENHL) in Peterboro, Madison County, NY will present a number programs during the upcoming Juneteenth Weekend. [Read more…] about Juneteenth Weekend Events in Madison County, NY

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Gerrit Smith Estate, National Abolition Hall of Fame

Oneida County Black History Photo ID & Documentation Event

June 14, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Black History Detectives courtesy Oneida County History CenterThe Oneida County History Center and For the Good Inc. will host a community photo identification, and documentation event on Friday, June 17th, to commemorate Juneteenth and encourage the preservation of Black History in Oneida County. [Read more…] about Oneida County Black History Photo ID & Documentation Event

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Hamilton College, Oneida County History Center

Thomas Paine Festival Set For New Rochelle June 16-18

June 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Thomas Paine Festival HD 600 2022 fileThe Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association, the Thomas Paine National Historical Association, and the Thomas Paine Memorial Association have announced the 2022 Thomas Paine Festival, honoring the legacy of one of America’s most iconic founding fathers, has been set for June 16th through 18th in New Rochelle, Westchester County, NY. [Read more…] about Thomas Paine Festival Set For New Rochelle June 16-18

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Huguenot Historical Association, New Rochelle Historical Association, Thomas Paine Memorial Association, Thomas Paine Museum, Thomas Paine National Historical Association

American Experience in the West Indies, 1740-1742

June 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

disaster on the spanish mainThirty-five years before the battles of Lexington  and Concord, the British colonies in North America raised a regiment to serve in the British Army for an expedition to seize control of the Spanish West Indies.

Colonial volunteers, 4,000 strong, joined 9,000 British soldiers and 15,000 British sailors in a bold amphibious campaign against the key port of Cartagena de Indias.  The expedition marked the first time American soldiers deployed overseas.

[Read more…] about American Experience in the West Indies, 1740-1742

Filed Under: Events, History, New York City Tagged With: Fraunces Tavern Museum, Maritime History, Military History, Naval History

Slavery and Emancipation Film Screening for Juneteenth Weekend

June 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

songs of slavery and emancipationThe National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum has announced the new film Songs of Slavery and Emancipation will debut at 5255 Pleasant Valley Road in Peterboro, Madison County, NY and at 320 West 37th Street in Manhattan on Saturday, June 18th. [Read more…] about Slavery and Emancipation Film Screening for Juneteenth Weekend

Filed Under: Arts, Events, History, New York City, Western NY Tagged With: National Abolition Hall of Fame

Phrenology in New York State: Manifestations of the Mind

June 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Phren HeadWhile phrenology often merits only a footnote in modern examinations of social and medical history, it played an important role in how people regarded themselves and others during the formative years of the 1840s.

Influencing topics as varied as courtship, employment, criminal justice, abolition, medicine, and suffrage, phrenology was intertwined throughout the everyday lives of many. [Read more…] about Phrenology in New York State: Manifestations of the Mind

Filed Under: Events, History, Western NY Tagged With: Oneida County History Center

Sojourner Truth Documents Going On View In Kingston

June 13, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Decades before she took her fabled name, abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth was born enslaved in Ulster County, NY under the name Isabella. It was as Isabella that the young Truth took action to secure the return of her five-year son Peter, who had been illegally sold to in plantation in Alabama.

With the help of local attorneys, Isabella filed a Habeas Corpus Petition in the Ulster County Courthouse in March of 1828. And it was this Isabella that prevailed on that Petition for her son’s freedom, marking the first time in American history that a Black woman sued a white man – and won. (You can read about that here). [Read more…] about Sojourner Truth Documents Going On View In Kingston

Filed Under: Events, History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Sojouner Truth

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