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Tue
29
Jul
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Saratoga Spa State Park
Travis Bowman, Head of Museum Collections for NYS Parks,
Recreation and Historic Preservation's Bureau of Historic Sites, presents Slavery
and the Middle Class in Colonial New York at the Victoria Pool House.
Usually considered a Southern issue, slavery played a surprisingly large role
in colonial and revolutionary era New York. Bowman will examine how slavery
evolved in New York over 200 years, under the Dutch, British, and American
systems of government, and how the institution was utilized at a local and
personal level among middle class farmers in the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys.
Registration: Not required
Wed
13
Aug
Wednesday, August 13, 2025 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Saratoga Spa State Park
Dr. Myra Armstead, Professor of Historical Studies at Bard
College, presents Free in the Spa City at the Victoria Pool House. The
emergence of Saratoga Springs as a national resort after 1820 was facilitated
by a small, but critical free, Black population. The overwhelming majority
of these African Americans were workers – some year-round and some seasonal. In
time, some were even tourists. This talk will provide an overview of the
development of this black presence in Saratoga – its labors, residential patterns,
demographic, and social rhythms. The focus will mainly be on the 19th
century.
Registration: Not required
Wed
03
Sep
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Saratoga Spa State Park
Clifford Oliver Mealy presents Becoming Solomon Northup
at the Victoria Pool House. A former photographer for NYS Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation, Mealy has spent years educating groups about the
contributions of African Americans in the Northeast. A reenactor, he shares his
historical knowledge through events across eastern New York.
Registration: Not required
Wed
24
Sep
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Saratoga Spa State Park
An Ebony Hillbillies concert at Saratoga Music Hall (474
Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY 12866) is the final event of NYS Parks,
Recreation and Historic Preservation's Solomon Northup "Hope Out of
Darkness" statue series. African American string bands were an essential part
of daily life throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Its practitioners played
for pleasure, for church, and to relieve the enormous stresses of life on the
plantation. String bands served as an early melting pot for musical and creative
integration of Africans, African Americans and Native Americans, with
influences by Scottish, Irish and other European immigrants.
Registration: Not required