Tag: american-history

• Slavery on Livingston Manor

  

  Warning: This blog mentions several topics that may be triggering to some populations. Speaking on the subject of slavery Thomas Jefferson once said; “We have the wolf by the ear and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go” We tend to think of slavery as a southern issue, but it was the…

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  June 30, 2026

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  1790, 1790 census, american-history, black-history, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, clermont, Declaration of Independence, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fred Astair, Geoff Benton, George H. W. Bush, George III, George W. Bush, George Washington, Germantown, history, Livingston Manor, Livingtston, politics, Slavery, Statistics, thomas jefferson

• Exploring New York’s Revolutionary War Flags: A Legacy of Liberty

  

  One of the most difficult things about writing about the Revolutionary War is trying to imagine what an American soldier would have seen and felt. Imagine yourself as an Albany County militia man at the Battle of Saratoga. You’ve just emerged from the woods and are forming up into lines for battle. Ahead of you…

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  May 8, 2025

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  3rd New York Regiment, Albany County Militia, american-history, american-revolution, clermont, Germantown, history, Huntington, Livingston, Manor Militia, military, Peter Gansevoort, Revolutionary War, RevWar250, Schenctady Liberty Flag

• Forced To Serve

  

  The system of slavery was so deeply ingrained in colonial American culture that when white officers joined the Continental Army they brought along a valet. This was a delicate way of saying that they were bringing an enslaved man to war, for no pay, to take care of them and sometimes even put them in…

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  April 4, 2024

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  american-history, George Washington, Henry Beekman Livingston, history, Jack, Revolutionary War, Richard Montgomery, Slavery, William Lee