"'Brought up at Ancram:" Tracing Diverse Stories in Livingston Valley"

In my talk, I will highlight how foregrounding the names and stories of those enslaved by the Livingston Family uncovered a largely untapped social landscape that is, with every passing day, changing for the better. The importance of such stories remains relevant in a region dominated by the tales and tangible legacies of wealthy landholding families. I will explore the techniques used to pursue their lives as well as how it remains a work in progress to highlight the lives of the still largely uncredited builders, planters, sowers, millworkers, shepherds, and others who constructed and maintained the built environment attributed to wealthy elites in the Hudson Valley. 

Dr. Nicole S. Maskiell is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College, and the author of Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry (2022). She has appeared on CSPAN, the podcast Ben Franklin’s World, and in a Historic Hudson Valley documentary film about the life and legacy of Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse, an early female trader and enslaver. She is series editor for the upcoming book series Black New England from the University of Massachusetts Press, which highlights innovative research on the history of African-descended people in New England from the colonial period through the present day.

Schedule of Events
2:00 pm   
"The Shifting Tides of New York Foodways in the early 19 th century"
Lavada Nahon, Culinary Historian

3:00 pm "Interlude" Teatime

3:30 pm   
"Brought up at Ancram:" Tracing Diverse Stories in Livingston Valley"
Nicole S. Maskiell, Dartmouth College

4:45 pm  Guided Walk on the Grounds