Ulster County County Truth and Reconciliation Commission launched a new website, Bearing Witness: Exploring the Legacy of Enslavement in Ulster County, New York, documenting the history of slavery in Ulster County by going through the county archives. The website is a record of what they found.
Visitors can search databases on enslaved people who were sold in the county, who went to church there, who tried to run away, who were killed, or who ultimately gained their freedom. A map on the new website shows where enslaved people lived in historic homes across the county.
Ulster County Truth and Reconciliation – Legacies of Enslavement in New York’s Ulster County