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Tag: Slavery

11.16.2022 Columns

Column: Research on local slave history bears fruit

Two-and-a-half years ago, three people who are serious about local history got together to tackle a subject few before them had considered important: the history of slavery on the...

10.02.2021 Columns

Column: A new way to look at history on the East End

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner In a voice touched with emotion, Donnamarie Barnes stood under a canopy of pine trees on a...

02.12.2021 Columns

Column: Group confronts ‘historical amnesia’ identifying more than 500 local slaves

In 1748 and 1749 announcements were placed in several New York City newspapers about slaves that had run away from their owners. The slaves in question, however, weren’t fugitives...

06.12.2020 News

Oysterponds Historical Society moves to better understand slave history

The Oysterponds Historical Society is taking a big step toward a more complete understanding of history as it begins a study of a slave burial ground on Narrow River...

11.09.2019 Community

Guest Column: Learning and caring can go hand in hand

Recently, the Southold Historical Society curated an exhibit on the lives of enslaved persons in Southold Town, and we read with interest The Suffolk Times editor Steve Wick’s Sept....

06.02.2019 Columns

Column: A remarkable discovery of our nation’s past

Last week, a far-reaching discovery was made in a muddy river bottom in Alabama. It is a discovery that speaks to our history, and to the past we as...

02.08.2019 Community

History of North Fork slavery largely ignored until recently, historians say

Not long after the founding of Southold Town in the mid-1600s, and more than a century before the western end of the town broke off and became Riverhead, the...

07.29.2018 Columns

Column: Discovery sheds light on history of slavery

In 1940, when Southold was preparing to celebrate its 300th anniversary, restoration work was done on The Old House in Cutchogue. During that process, something was discovered under a...

03.08.2018 North Fork History Project

North Fork History Project: Slavery, an ignored part of our history

 They were here, nearly from the founding of Southold Town in the mid-17th century. Their presence has not been widely discussed or been part of the conversation in...

02.08.2018 North Fork History Project

North Fork History Project: When English arrive, Indians disperse

Her name was Sarah. She was 8 years old. Old enough to be sold by her owner in Southold Town to a man named John Parker, who owned a...

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