Friends of the Goshen Public Library will host Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran on Saturday, April 12, to discuss the history of enslaved Africans in the Dutch Colonial Hudson Valley. Provided photo.
Slavery was not limited to southern states, but how much do we know about its presence in our own backyard?
The Friends of the Goshen Public Library and Historical Society will host Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran on Saturday, April 12, who will bring the issue into focus.
Moran’s presentation will look at how Dutch colonization expanded into the Hudson Valley and Africans of different languages and ethnicities were trafficked into the region.
We will learn about their day-to-day lives, including examples of their resistance and the many ways they shaped the valley we know today.
Event is at 10 a.m., April 12, in the Pomares Community Room of the Goshen Public Library, 366 Main St., Goshen. Admission is free.