Since the days of Dutch New Amsterdam, waves of migrants—some voluntary, some not—have continually remade the city. Historically, immigrants have accounted for almost all of the City’s population growth as well as its emergence as a center of economic activity and cultural innovation.
In a world where Eliza Jumel had the odds stacked against her in every respect (socially, financially, and more), she actualized the reality she wanted for herself.
She will be presenting "Genesis of Blackness in the Americas: Santo Domingo, A Passport to Black Caribbean Culture and Identity," a conversation about the first Blacks to arrive in the Caribbean and how Santo Domingo, or La Española, played a key role as the main port of entry for the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
This talk will examine the lives of women in the Neutral Zone more broadly as well as specific stories of individual women including Mary Philipse Morris and Elizabeth Williams Rutgers Philipse, Ann Fisher Miller, Grace Isaacs Babcock, and Black Loyalists such as Eleanor Fleming and Lydia Tompkins.
Morris-Jumel Mansion Virtual Parlor Chat: Food, Hunger, Scarcity and General Washington’s Continental Army. What did the soldiers of the Continental Army eat to fuel their fight for independence? What about the officers or General George Washington? Food insecurity was a monumental challenge faced by all those involved in the American Revolution. rom soldier's rations to George Washington's war time birthday celebrations, learn about the culinary history of the American Revolution.
Morris-Jumel Mansion: Virtual Parlor Chat "Indigenous New York with Oleana Whispering". An introductory oral historical account and cultural interpretation of the Indigenous ethnos and landscape of New York from 1654 to today. This dialogue answers questions rarely addressed based upon documented historical records and taps into how they exist today in the shadows of an internationally famous metropolis.
