Restoring History & Honoring Humanity
A one-day conference to explore the historical and ongoing legacies of slavery in Northern communities, focusing on the completion of the Witness Stones memorials in Deerfield and featuring presentations on research, interpretation, and activism related to this history. This is a hybrid program that will take place both in person and virtually via Zoom; registrants […]
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 […]
Eighth grade students from Timberlane Middle School worked with the Witness Stones Project and the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum to memorialize three enslaved people from Central New Jersey: Friday Truehart, Frost Blackwell and a woman named Nance. This exhibition of student artwork reflects on these individuals’ lives, history and humanity. Sponsored by the Stoutsburg […]
