Anthony & Susanna Witness Stone Ceremony hosted by Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center and Historic Huguenot Street

The Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center and Historic Huguenot Street will honor and remember the lives of Anthony and Susanna, enslaved in Ulster County during the seventeenth century.

Anthony and Susanna were purchased by Louis DuBois, a French Protestant founder of New Paltz, in 1673. Their purchase is the earliest record of enslavement associated with a New Paltz patentee. While being among the first people of African descent enslaved in Ulster County, they notably resisted their enslavement in the primitive backwoods of Ulster County.

The Dr. Margaret Wade-Lewis Center, in partnership with Historic Huguenot Street, will honor and remember the lives of Anthony and Susanna at the site of the commemorative Witness Stone installation. During Black History month, we are spreading the word of the courage and agency of Africans in Ulster County. Please join us for this free, public commemoration.

The snow date for this event is March 1st.