![]() ![]() This was during the time in New York State when slavery was legal, and there were still over 250 enslaved people in the city. It builds on work by Stefan Bielinski (New York State Education Dept.) and an independent historian, John Wolcott.ĭespite what must have seemed almost insurmountable obstacles free African Americans in the city of Albany established what would become a thriving community in the first two decades of the 1800s. of Africana Studies, University at Albany: Lorie Wies – Librarian Saratoga Springs Public Library Paula Lemire -Historian, Albany Rural Cemetery. This story has never been told before, and I could not have done the research without the help of these women Jessica Fisher Neidl – Museum Editor, New York State Museum Maura Cavanaugh – Archivist, Albany Hall of Records Dr. It was a remarkable feat, and there appears to have been nowhere else in the new nation where free people of color managed to succeed at such an endeavor. and about a dozen other free Black men built a school and a church in the city’s South End in 1812. The Albany African Society, lead by a Black Revolutionary War soldier, Benjamin Lattimore Sr., who could neither read or write, his teenage son, Benjamin Lattimore Jr.
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