Black-Owned Farms in the Bronx in the Early 1800s with J. Keith Doherty
Van Cortlandt House Museum 6036 Broadway, Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, NY, United StatesThis talk by historian J. Keith Doherty will focus on a number of early farms in the Bronx that were owned by free Black men during the era of Gradual Emancipation, when slavery was slowly being abolished (1799-1827). Though several Black-owned farms existed in the rural environs of the city at the time, nearly all […]
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