Past Events

Thursday, February 17: Spaces of Enslavement

A Historic Red Hook lecture about my book. A recording of the event is available here.

Monday, November 22: A History of Slavery and Resistance in New Amsterdam

A Gotham Center for New York History lecture series conversation with Nicole Maskiell about Spaces of Enslavement.

Monday, October 25, 7:30pm: NYS Writers Institute Book Event

A conversation about Spaces of Enslavement at the University of Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany 12222. Specific location info and more can be found here.

Saturday, October 23: Black Lives in Dutch New York

Keynote for this year’s New Netherland Institute conference. A recording of the conference can now be viewed here.

Wednesday, September 8: Markers on the Land: Slavery, Commemoration and the History of Africans in Northern Manhattan

Week Three of the Dyckman Farmhouse series “Talking About Race Matters: Join the Conversation.” A zoom conversation with Robert Snyder, Peggy King Jorde, and Richard Tomczak. You can read more about the event and watch a recoding here.

Sunday, May 2, 2021: Petrus Stuyvesant, the Dutch Slaver Gideon, and Expansion of Slavery and the Slave Trade in New Netherland

A conversation with Jaap Jacobs organized by St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC) about Petrus Stuyvesant’s role in expansion of the slave trade.

Thursday, April 22, 2021: Enslavement and the Dual Nature of Early New York Homes

A lecture for the Schenectady Historical Society that explores how Dutch American homes functioned as spaces of enslavement.

Thursday, January 28, 2021: Slavery and Social Power in the Dutch Reformed Church

A Bergen County Historical Society lecture about slavery and social power in early New York’s Dutch Reformed churches. You can watch a recording of the lecture here.