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- 2019TV EpisodeScholars discuss how wealthy white northerners in the 17th century created a system of enslaving African captives that became key to the growth and development of the colonial economy.
- Caesar, an enslaved miller, and his young apprentices like Flip, made the Philipsburg Manor mill profitable, yet only their enslaver made money from their intense labor and expertise.
- 2019TV EpisodeScholars and museum interpreters discuss the extensive specialized knowledge of skilled enslaved laborers in the colonial North, while actors depict Caesar the miller and his apprentice, Flip.
- 2019TV EpisodeScholars and museum interpreters discuss what happened to Caesar, the enslaved miller, and to the entire enslaved community at Philipsburg Manor, after the death of their enslaver.
- 2019TV EpisodeHow much flour could Caesar, an enslaved miller, produce in a day, a week, or a season? Museum interpreter Robert Morgan explains why Caesar's knowledge and experience running the gristmill was so valuable.
- Scholars discuss how enslaved families were constantly threatened with separation by their enslavers. Being legally classified as property tested the resolve of enslaved families like the Jacksons in their fight to reunify loved ones.
- Performers and historians discuss the components of American culture that originated in Africa and the West Indies, including music, food, folk tales, language, and dance.
- Traditional folktales like this one may have been told by elders to the children of the enslaved community. In addition to entertainment, these stories were fables, communicating important advice, instruction, and survival skills.
- Enslaved communities throughout the North preserved aspects of their African heritage through performing arts. These traditions offered opportunities for engagement and covert resistance, as Pinkster musicians and performers demonstrate.
- Watch as culinary historians discuss the foods of African captives in the colonial North and prepare some of the many African contributions to American cuisine.
- 2019TV EpisodeHistorian and poet discuss the life of the poet Phillis Wheatley. Although her poetry on the themes of freedom and oppression brought her international fame, she nevertheless spent most of her life enslaved to the Wheatley family.
- Inspired by primary documents, this reenactment depicts the final meeting of Jack and Parthenia, an enslaved married couple held by different enslavers. On the eve of Parthenia's forced departure for Barbados, she and Jack say farewell.
- A scholar describes one of the first rebellions of enslaved people in North America, which occurred in New York City in 1712, and a second rebellion almost thirty years later in 1741.
- 2019TV EpisodeFor more than a hundred years after the passing of the 13th Amendment, the facts of Northern enslavement were systematically left out of textbooks, museums, and historic site interpretations, changing the U.S. national narrative.
- 2019TV EpisodeStaff and advisors to Historic Hudson Valley discuss how the stories of enslaved residents were restored to the interpretation at the Philipsburg Manor historic site, as a result of sustained research into primary sources.
- 2019TV EpisodeStudying the history of Northern slavery is challenging, as primary documents about enslaved people were almost always written from enslavers' perspectives. Historians discuss piecing together the lives of those who were enslaved.