07.20.2021 News Town historian writes about Augusta, refitted in Greenport for the slave trade As Amy Folk writes in a new essay, “involvement in slavery did not end in the northeastern United States when the importation of slaves from abroad was banned by...
08.21.2019 Community Historical society opens ‘Slavery in Southold’ exhibit In 1629, 11 Africans arrived in New York and were sold to the Dutch Colonial government in what is now Manhattan. It began an era of slavery in the...