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Interactive documentary presents HHV’s newest phase of sharing the stories and lives of enslaved people. Dina, Sampson, Abigal, Charles. Sam, Caesar, Venture and Massey. The hand-written names slowly illuminate the screen, floating over a parchment inventory dated 1750. These are the enslaved individuals who lived and worked at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, New York, […]

Learning how to tell the whole story about slavery in the colonial North Several dozen teachers who visited Philipsburg Manor in the summer of 2017 explored the grounds of the provisioning plantation to absorb details of colonial life for their lesson plans. They noted how the manor house was managed, what herbs filled the garden […]

The mill at Philipsburg Manor produced the flour that generated the wealth of the Philipse family and secured their place near the top of the socioeconomic empire of colonial America. The enslaved man who ran that mill, however, received no such benefits. The miller, Caesar, was considered property by the Philipse family, and was neither […]

On the ground floor of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington is an exhibition on the building’s spectacular architectural design. There you’ll find, among the three noted sources of inspiration on display, a picture of an African-American woman dancing jubilantly, skirts twirling and arms raised up to the sky against […]