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Are the Billups part of this

The dramatic drop in the Black community is quite daunting. I wonder if there were local laws passed that placed undue restrictions on the Black population, prompting their move. That kind of thing was quite commonplace. What else could have happened from 1850 to 1870 to cause the large decline?

Elect the orange bloat and see how much of history disappears. His boy Ron's already erasing history in floriduh.

35:44 volunteer minstrel show 1903, 6th annual performance

35:06 racial hierarchy 2nd class citizens in Schenectady

33:46 conclusions

31:48 jay st was backbone of community

28:41 building a home

20:39 between black and white

18:27 occupations

very courageous of you. most of the people want certain things to remain hidden.

Thank you. I always said there are good same.good people in the world they just have to come and together to make this a better. World and sèx😅😅😅 did I sathat 😮😮.

What exactly was erased? They were poor and didn't have cameras, thus their are not a lot of photos. Nothing was ERASED bro, quit the bullshit

Is the system didn't call all black people? African people We would learn so much more. It's like black people in America are slowly being erased? We set it at the same time.

LOL. Narrated like a true Marxist propagandist.

Soooooo interesting very informative.. thank you very much for this program!

People of color? You People? How about the truth ! Black Foundational Descendants of americanKKK holocaust SLAVERY!🔥💯

Very sadly, Black Americans have had over 12 million acres stolen from them by White Americans over the course of the 20th century ! Including the state of New York. I believe the number is much higher than 12 million. There is a reckoning coming. The Most High will repay all evil deeds against his people.

Black, Negro & Colored North Americans 🇺🇸 are NOT Africans….✅

Why would you call Indians #black is the question

They got shipped to the Islands dividing the tribes

If they were enslaved how are they Africans because of the church 🙃😑 the same church that enslaved the #BlackindieEndz is crazy

The only historical evidence I can recall from Albany was Henry Johnson and they didn’t exactly bring him up for the community to learn about

Very good scholarship here - you’ve left no stone unturned. Thank you for this phenomenal work!

It’s important to keep telling our own stories writing books and keeping artifacts from family and having our own libraries and museums to tell OUR OWN STORIES available to share within our own communities with our own children

Did you check the 1828 Webster's dictionary for American? American is a bloodline. Original Americans have been reclassified 5 times (Af-Am, Black, Negro, Colored, Indian) since 1920. Reclassification of the originals allowed immigrants to claim to be "American".

Winch. So damn hateful, as it all systematically began. Separate and never meant to be equal

SMH 🤦🏽🤦🏽

SEE. HOW. WHITE. STARTED. THE. RACIST. FRIST 🤙🏽🤘🏽

I would be interested in knowing how the town was impacted by the Civil War.

Is there any evidence in support or to the contrary of the sale/export of slaves to other states in anticipation of the 1827 abolishing of slavery in New York State? Could this account for the rather steep drop in the black population during that 10 year period between censuses?

I am from a small town in New Jersey. ( Montclair, New Jersey ) When I review the history of my town,Black people are never mentioned as productive and stable. However there was a large and close knit community of Black people. At the time that I grew up the church was very prominent in our community. Every adult, worked and took responsibility for the welfare of every child in the neighborhood. We had our own social network and our parents made sure that our achievements were recorded and documented. Montclair, also had a large population of Italians, they also had a large productive and stable community, they are hardly mentioned. It is no accident that whites act like people that are different did not exist, in all of their history they exclude non-whites. To this day they are refusing to acknowledge Black history by not even allowing it to be taught in schools.

Picture a small grpup of merchants importing millions of people, far and above the amount needed for labor, and then fooling around all day, and leaving their descendants with a pissed off and huge poor pool of slave laborers after they made their money. The whole thing is disgusting over all. Starts with importing millions of people they knew nothing about and thinking this was going to work out well for their descendants, either owner or slave.

The many issues resulting from people who wouldn't pick their own cotton. America is the dumbest country ever.

Used to watch the Submarine races with your date from under the old bridge.

Wow - great presentation! Too bad one of us members of the congregation didn't know you were coming, and could have taken you inside, and filled in a couple of details; such as - the door nearest to you was the women's entrance, and the faster door was the men's entrance. Each would conduct their own business; hence the divider in the middle, which could be opened up for co-ed business! Also, this building replaced the former meeting house, which burned down.

Hey Mike, I live in the blue house with yellow door. stop by, I can get you into the Quaker meeting house. I can also introduce you to some of the few remaining quakers here in our beautiful community.

My best guess is they left because they didn't want to live around the same people who enslaved them. They may have moved to Canada.

We do love living here on Niska isle.

I was there last week and was saddened to see so much litter; there were also a lot of “No Trespassing signs on both sides of the hollow,” which was confusing because it’s a public place. I was also wondering if the house that is near the historic post about the Algonkin village the exact place where the castle was located or on that person’s land?

Always enjoy these local snippets!

Love the cotent,

😊 great job

Brilliant! A frequent part of many bike rides, and still accessible for such. Harmenus Albertse Vedder was my 11th great-grandfather and I've always felt a visceral attachment to the Mohawk Valley in general. I especially appreciate the native American deep dive which we hear so little about. Thanks, and subscribed.

Very valuable and interesting information. Thank you for sharing.

Lovely aerial views, pleasant background music and good, well-narrated script! It is so good to see that these historic, scenic locals of my childhood are being preserved and renovated. The stockade area will always be a gem for the ages, but I had no idea the old locomotive works were repurposed so nicely. What can be done for the city of Schenectady itself? It seems like it has been ghettoized.

Very interesting information. Thanks!

Schenectady is not a good place to live

Excellent documentary! Mike, you have done some fine research! I was wondering if you had access to birth and death records pertaining to black citizens in this period, if in fact such records even existed. I was thinking that part of the marked decrease in population in the decade after 1830 might have been due to elderly former slaves passing away.

what a fascinating, interesting and valuable piece of work. Great Job Mike.