Untold Stories, Unsung Heroes: Marginalized Communities on and Along the Erie Canal (1817 to 1834)
Subject
African American
American Indian
Women's History
Millions descend from the more than 150,000 Scots who settled in North America by 1785. Those settlers, like many settlers of the time, took part in the transatlantic slave trade. A generous grant from the Scottish Government’s Scottish Connections Fund enabled the NYG&B to engage the services of expert researchers to compile the following guide and accompanying resources to trace biographical and genealogical connections to those enslaved individuals.
Please join us Saturday, February 24, 2024, at 1 p.m. ET for a talk by Jeremy Ellis, President of the Clotilda Descendants Association (CDA), “The Truth of the 110 Survivors Aboard the Clotilda.” The Clotilda was the...