The Free African American Experience in Antebellum New York
Saturday, February 8, 10:00am - 12:30pm
From rare handwritten diaries, to church burial records and archived newspapers, historians, preservationists and archaeologists rely on artifacts from the past to inspire and inform their work. As we commemorate Black History Month this February, we invite you to hear two excellent speakers:
Dr. Myra Young Armstead, Author of "Freedom's Gardener," the story of James F. Brown, a fugitive slave from the South who found freedom in New York as a Master Gardener. Brown had associations with American horticulturalist and landscape architect, Andrew Jackson Downing and also worked for Peter Augustus Jay from 1831 -1832.
Filmmaker, David Pultz , creator of a documentary called "The Bones Speak," a work about the history and archaeology at the Spring Street Church, one of the first integrated congregations in New York City and a focal point of the 1834 Abolitionists Riots.
They will both discuss the types of cultural resources they used to research the lives of free black families in the Hudson Valley and downtown Manhattan.
Co-sponsored by the Clunie Branch of ASALH (the Association for the Study of African American Life and History), the African American Men of Westchester and the Westchester County Historical Society. Admission is Free.
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