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"Land Tenure and Tenancy in the Hudson Valley, 1790-1860". Agricultural History. 18 (2): 75– 82. ISSN 0002-1482. JSTOR 3739598. Mayham, Albert Champlin (1906). The anti-rent war on Blenheim Hill : an episode of the 40's : a history of the struggle between landlord and tenant growing out of the patroon system in the eastern part of New York ...
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam in 1655, painted by Howard Pyle, 1917. The trafficking of enslaved Africans to what became New York began as part of the Dutch slave trade. The Dutch West India Company trafficked eleven enslaved Africans to New Amsterdam in 1626, with the first slave auction held in New Amsterdam in 1655. [1]
The Articles were largely observed in New Amsterdam and the Hudson River Valley, but were violated in another part of the conquest of New Netherland along the Delaware River, where Colonel Sir Robert Carr expropriated property for his own use and sold Dutch prisoners of war into slavery. Nicolls eventually forced Carr to return some of the ...
Towns across the Lower Hudson Valley are hosting events to commemorate Black History month. Here's a list of events.
It was a transient free Black community and was typical of such communities in that it emerged in the decades prior to the Civil War, but dissipated after the war’s conclusion and the national abolition of slavery. [2] [3] William G Pomeroy Foundation historic marker noting the National Register Historic Places New Guinea Site in Hyde Park NY.
Historic Huguenot Street is located in New Paltz, New York, approximately 90 miles (140 km) north of New York City.The seven stone houses and several accompanying structures in the 10-acre National Landmark Historic District were likely built in the early 18th century by Huguenot settlers fleeing discrimination and religious persecution in France and what's now southern Belgium.
The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York.The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County, bordering New York City.
The Hudson Valley was inhabited by indigenous peoples ages before Europeans arrived. The Algonquins lived along the Hudson River, with the three subdivisions of that group being the Lenape (also known as the Delaware Indians), the Wappingers, and the Mahicans. [2] The lower Hudson River was inhabited by the Lenape Indians. [3]