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