The Mysterious Black Migration 1800-1820: THE VAN VRANKEN FAMILY And Other "Free" Families of African Descent in Washington County, New York"

The story that unfolds in this work manifests the pursuit of one of the many historical mysteries that plague the early history of people of African descent in New York State - a mass migration of thousands of African descendants to Washington County, New York at the turn of the 19th century. The impact of this “de-valued history” and its absence from the historical record has distorted the recollection and remembrance of people of African descent in New York, whose ancestors were trapped i...