Someone noted that most of the traffic here seemed to be about Upstate NY
- the Slavery topic seems to have indicated that that is one avenue not
well traveled by upstaters.
        In 19th century census records for rural areas it is quite common to find
a few families noted as Black or Mulatto but they seem to be ignored or
otherwise neglected in community histories and records (bias or low
economic class).  Are there any studies or sources for the African
Experience in the first decades of the 19th century (and later) in Upstate
NY?  Has anyone attempted this topic?
        David Corbin's little booklet "The Black Minority in Early New York"
(NYSED, 1975, 45 pp) is excellent, but stops short of the 19th century.

        Dan W.

See the 1850 Cazenovia Anti-Slavery Convention daguerreotype, with
Frederick Douglass, Gerritt Smith, and others:

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~weiskott/douglass.html


or other illustrations of a particular spot in Upstate NY:

http://www.erols.com/weiskotten/illustrations&maps.html