Antislavery in the Mid-Hudson Valley
Relearning Highlands HistoryAn Interview with Peter Bunten of the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project In our last installment of Relearning Highlands History, we introduced People Not Property and stories of enslavement in the colonial Hudson Valley. We learned that New York had more enslaved people than any place north of Maryland, and was one of the last colonies to abolish slavery in 1827. This