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Dr. Myra Young Armstead, Ph.D. presents "The Loango Connection: Slavery and Slaveholding at Saratoga House and Its Environs"
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 43.000000, -74.000000
This event will be held in the Visitor Center Theater.
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Taking the perspective of enslaved Africans and their descendants attached to General Philip Schuyler's country estate, Saratoga House, we will explore their work, family, and leisure experiences with a primary focus on the early eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century by addressing several questions: What did adjustment to life in the Upper Hudson Valley entail? What parts of the culture of their ancestral homelands did they lose, retain, or adapt? To what extent was culture a resource for them? What elements of Afro-Dutch culture were influenced by an African presence? In what ways did slaves resist their forced captivity?
Myra Young Armstead is a tenured, senior faculty member in the History Department at Bard College where she has taught for 38 years and she holds an endowed chair. She received her doctorate in History from the University of Chicago where she interned under the late Dr. John Hope Franklin and concentrated in three fields—U.S. urban history, U.S. diplomatic history, and African colonial history. She holds a Masters in International Relations with a concentration in African Affairs from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelors from Cornell University where she majored in Government. She has published widely on topics relating to African-American social and cultural life, including the recently completed Historic Resource Study for Saratoga National Historical Park: Memory and Enslavement: Schuyler House, Old Saratoga, and the Saratoga Patent in History, Historical Practice, and Historical Imagination.
This is the first program in Saratoga NHP’s Fall Lecture Series, brought to you in partnership with the Friends of Saratoga Battlefield. Stay tuned for more programs!
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