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Blacks in New Netherland and Colonial New York -'. The RENSSELAERSWYCK SEMINAR presents a conference on: BLACKS IN NEW NETHERLAND AND COLONIAL NEW YORK Sponsored by the New Netherland Project of the New York State Library and the Seminar on Monogram ofthe New York State History of the Division of Historical and Anthropological SerVices, New York patroonship of State Museum. Rensselaerswyck The sponsors announce a one-day conference on Blacks in New Netherland and Colonial New York to be held on February 18th at the Cultural Edu­ cation Center of the Empire State Plaza. The two sessions of the conference will explore various aspects of the Black experience in North America under the Dutch of New Netherland and the English of the province of New York. The five papers will present the results of recent research on Black slaves and freedmen in the Middle Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries. Woodcut from a poem entitled "The Sorrows of Yamba or the Negro Woman's Lamentation." Printed as a broadside: original in NYSL. Manuscripts and Special Collections. New Netherland Project New York State Library BLACKS IN NEW NETHERLAND AND Albany, N. Y. 12230 COLONIAL NEW YORK Funded by a grant /rom the New York Council for the Humanities '. BLACKS IN NEW NETHERLAND AND COLONIAL NEW YORK Location: Student Center. First Floor of the Cultural Education Center in the Empire State Plaza. Albany. N.Y. Directions: From exit 23 of the Thruway take 787 north and exit at Madison Avenue. The Cultural Education Center is on the top of the hill directly behind the Cathedral. From 1-90 take 787 south to the Madison Avenue exit and proceed as above. Parking: A free parking lot is available between the Cathedral and the Cultural Copper engroulng 0/ scene 0/ New Amsterdam co 1650 /rom collection o/I.N.P Stoke.. Education Center on Madison Avenue. PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS Saturday, February 18 Stefan Bielinski. Director of the Colonial Albany Social Hi tory Project 8:30-lOAM Registration. Student Center Peter R. Christoph. 9:30 Introductory Remarks. E.J. Josey Associate Librarian. YSL 10'00 Morning Session David S. Cohen. Coordinator. Folklife Program. Moderator: Charles Gehring New Jersey Historical Comml sion Blacks in ew Netherland. Joyce D. Goodfriend Thomas J. Davis. Associate Professor of HI torv. The Freedmen of New Amsterdam. Peter R. Christoph Howard University . Commentator: George A. Levesque Charles Gehring. Editor and Translator. New Netherland Project. YSL 12 -1:30 Lunch Joyce D. Goodfriend. Associate Professor 1PM Afternoon Session of History. University of Denver Moderator: Charles Gehring E.J. Josey. Chief. Bureau of Specialist Llhrary The African Slave during the Early English Services. State Education Department: Period. Willie F. Page Vice·Presldent/PresidentElect. American Library These Enemies of Their Own Households: Slaves in Association 18th-Century New York City. Thomas J. Davis George A Levesque. Associate Professor of Afro American Studies. University Center. Albany In Search of Carolus Africanus Rex: Afro-Dutch Folklore in New York and New Jersey. David S. Willie F. Page. Associate Profe sor of History. Brooklyn College Cohen Commentator: Stefan Bielinski r----------------------------------------------------, REGISTRATION FORM To: New Netherland Project New York State Library Albany, N.V. 12230 NAME ADDRESS Regiatration fee of $5.00 should be made payable to I The New Netherland Project I I I I ._---------------------------------------------------~.
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