We are proud to present a suite of original resources for teachers, students, and anyone interested in learning about history through digital media.
Our team of historians have created this selection of critical tools, drawing upon primary documents, extensive research, and insights from esteemed thought leaders in the field. They can be used on their own or as way to extended your on-site visit experience.
Kofi’s Fire
An Interactive Graphic Novel
Kofi, a young man who was enslaved by the Philipse family and is linked with the history of Philipsburg Manor, was accused of being one of the “ringleaders” of the so-called “New York Conspiracy” in 1741, when many African and white colonists were charged with plotting to burn Manhattan. This fictionalized account is based in primary documents and scholarly research and brought to life through vivid storytelling and breathtaking art and design.
Grades: 6-12
People Not Property
An Online Documentary
This award-winning resource reveals the history of Northern slavery through the stories of enslaved individuals at Philipsburg Manor and beyond. Discover how we know about Caesar and Phillis, Jack and Nell, and many other African captives whose experiences were assumed lost to history. Celebrate the expertise, determination and courage with which they endured this terrible injustice.
Grades: 4-12
Runaway Film
A Short Dramatic Film
This fictionalized short film is based on a runaway advertisement that ran in the New-York Weekly Journal on October 27, 1740. The said an enslaved man, Galloway, was “seen and challenged” at Philipsburg Manors’s mill and escaped after “asserting he was sent in pursuit” of a Cuban runaway. The movie follows Sue, who is enslaved at Philipsburg Manor, and her encounter with the men.
Grades: 4-12
A Colonial Trading Woman
A Short Documentary Film
Who was Margaret Philipse and why should we know her story? Discover the biography of this forgotten power broker as scholars share the surprising history of women in New Amsterdam and reveal the complicated truth about New York’s founding families and the legacy they left behind at Historic Hudson Valley’s Philipsburg Manor and elsewhere.
Grades: 6-12
