A History Erased: Rediscovering Black Schenectady
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2022
- In 2021, the Schenectady County Historical Society embarked on a massive project to document all people of color listed in federal census data from 1790 to 1910. In this short documentary, we use this data to attempt to reveal the lost history of Schenectady County's 19th century black population.
Special thanks to volunteers Megan Bisonette and Sam Rodick for their assistance in this project.
I am from a small town in New Jersey. ( Montclair, New Jersey ) When I review the history of my town,Black people are never mentioned as productive and stable. However there was a large and close knit community of Black people. At the time that I grew up the church was very prominent in our community. Every adult, worked and took responsibility for the welfare of every child in the neighborhood. We had our own social network and our parents made sure that our achievements were recorded and documented. Montclair, also had a large population of Italians, they also had a large productive and stable community, they are hardly mentioned. It is no accident that whites act like people that are different did not exist, in all of their history they exclude non-whites. To this day they are refusing to acknowledge Black history by not even allowing it to be taught in schools.
So true.
Must keep telling the stories on platforms in books in museums
Yes for whatever reason the liberal establishment does not like talking about the many successful blacks that lived in America over the past 100 years. They only want to talk about police brutality or slavery but will never talk about the multitude of successful and happy black people that have made a good life in America.
@@brianmeen2158 Wow… you are either clueless, delusional or both.
@@brianmeen2158 probably because every time we got ahead, we were beaten down. You know, like in Tulsa Oklahoma.
It’s important to keep telling our own stories writing books and keeping artifacts from family and having our own libraries and museums to tell OUR OWN STORIES available to share within our own communities with our own children
As a descendent of one of Schenectady's first slave-owning founding families, I greatly appreciate the depth and breadth of historical investigation and I encourage its continuance. #DebtOwed #ReparationsNow
So R U claiming to be White or Black. When Black and White was a status and Whites were slaves and Civil war was white military forces bombing murdering Indigenous . CaucAsians was the Indigenous slaves. I have NO Indigenous slaves. These CaucAsians lie hiding that they were the slaves. Stop lying. 😂😂😂😂
I would be interested in knowing how the town was impacted by the Civil War.
Soooooo interesting very informative.. thank you very much for this program!
very courageous of you. most of the people want certain things to remain hidden.
what a fascinating, interesting and valuable piece of work. Great Job Mike.
Picture a small grpup of merchants importing millions of people, far and above the amount needed for labor, and then fooling around all day, and leaving their descendants with a pissed off and huge poor pool of slave laborers after they made their money. The whole thing is disgusting over all. Starts with importing millions of people they knew nothing about and thinking this was going to work out well for their descendants, either owner or slave.
Very good scholarship here - you’ve left no stone unturned. Thank you for this phenomenal work!
My best guess is they left because they didn't want to live around the same people who enslaved them. They may have moved to Canada.
Very valuable and interesting information. Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting information. Thanks!
Excellent documentary! Mike, you have done some fine research! I was wondering if you had access to birth and death records pertaining to black citizens in this period, if in fact such records even existed. I was thinking that part of the marked decrease in population in the decade after 1830 might have been due to elderly former slaves passing away.
31:48 jay st was backbone of community
Is there any evidence in support or to the contrary of the sale/export of slaves to other states in anticipation of the 1827 abolishing of slavery in New York State? Could this account for the rather steep drop in the black population during that 10 year period between censuses?
35:44 volunteer minstrel show 1903, 6th annual performance
Did you check the 1828 Webster's dictionary for American? American is a bloodline. Original Americans have been reclassified 5 times (Af-Am, Black, Negro, Colored, Indian) since 1920. Reclassification of the originals allowed immigrants to claim to be "American".
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Our ancestors came from Africa stop being delusional. Yes we could be mixed with native or white but stop stealing other people's history.
They got shipped to the Islands dividing the tribes
28:41 building a home
33:46 conclusions
The only historical evidence I can recall from Albany was Henry Johnson and they didn’t exactly bring him up for the community to learn about
20:39 between black and white
Thank you. I always said there are good same.good people in the world they just have to come and together to make this a better. World and sèx😅😅😅 did I sathat 😮😮.
If they were enslaved how are they Africans because of the church 🙃😑 the same church that enslaved the #BlackindieEndz is crazy
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18:27 occupations
Is the system didn't call all black people? African people We would learn so much more. It's like black people in America are slowly being erased? We set it at the same time.
SMH 🤦🏽🤦🏽
35:06 racial hierarchy 2nd class citizens in Schenectady
Winch. So damn hateful, as it all systematically began. Separate and never meant to be equal
Schenectady is not a good place to live
Please explain.
@@karenryder6317 extremely high taxes, crime, blight and much much more.
@@JayVivzMany Black, freed Slaves…stayed in Schenectady, NY and their families flourished and grew over the generations. A small group who grew and called Schenectady their home! Generation after generation who became land owners working the land as well as having jobs. Working side by side with the white man. Near the canal, African Americans found work in canal-related industries, as laborers, boatmen, hotel workers, or barbers. African American barbers were especially important" (Welman, n.d.). By the 1840s, Albany was the main depot for freedom seekers who came through New York City. At one time? The Erie Canal would have been a great means of escape for slaves searching for freedom in the north. Schenectady’s History yes there were slaves and their history filled with stories of overcoming their hardships to become strong, proud, hearty families stuck it out to make the best of what their lives could be. Hard work and perseverance only added to What Schenectady was to become as a growing city for the Black community as well as the White community working hard together.
LOL. Narrated like a true Marxist propagandist.