‘This Land Is Yours’ | Nell Irvin Painter
Two recent books recover the missing Black history of upstate New York, challenging the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/27/this-land-is-yours-the-black-woods-amy-godine/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR-030925-Tarnoff-Weisberg-Oshinsky-Painter-Townley-Chandler-Dykstra&utm_content=NYR-030925-Tarnoff-Weisberg-Oshinsky-Painter-Townley-Chandler-Dykstra+CID_46ac509c7ddb46fac3e14dbcec850123&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=This%20Land%20Is%20Yours
Two recent books recover the missing Black history of upstate New York, challenging the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/27/this-land-is-yours-the-black-woods-amy-godine/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR-030925-Tarnoff-Weisberg-Oshinsky-Painter-Townley-Chandler-Dykstra&utm_content=NYR-030925-Tarnoff-Weisberg-Oshinsky-Painter-Townley-Chandler-Dykstra+CID_46ac509c7ddb46fac3e14dbcec850123&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=This%20Land%20Is%20Yours
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I remember visiting the African Burial Ground and an exhibit about enslaved Africans in New York…had to be atleast ten years ago.
Excited to learn more.