Dyckman Discussions: A More Perfect Union in Inwood

FAIN: GG-287552-22

Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance (New York, NY 10034-3101)
Meredith Horsford (Project Director: January 2022 to September 2023)
Melissa Kiewiet (Project Director: September 2023 to present)

Humanities discussions exploring the history of New York City’s Inwood neighborhood from the colonial era through the nineteenth century.

The proposed project, Dyckman Discussions: A More Perfect Union in Inwood, is a two year in-person discussion series that will begin by exploring topics in New York history, such as forced removal of indigenous people, Dutch colonization, enslaved labor, and immigration. These panel discussions will lay a foundation for a three-part series of community dialogues in the second year. The community dialogues will build on the humanities-focused discussions from the previous year, and tackle the histories that lay the groundwork for and are relevant to today’s social and political climate. By centering our discussions around New York City and Inwood, staff at the museum aim to inspire our neighborhood to see commonalities - a ‘more perfect union’ - between themselves and their neighbors, creating a more unified community.

Associated Products

Culture and Connection in Early New York (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Culture and Connection in Early New York
Abstract: In the 17th and 18th centuries, the cultures and empires bordering the Atlantic ocean were defined by trade, colonization, slavery, and resistance. Chaired by Andrea Mosterman, this panel explores the shores of the Atlantic and the Caribbean as a meeting place for Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans. Our panelists will explore slavery in the Hudson Valley, relations between the Dutch and indigenous peoples, Dutch connections to the Caribbean, and the role of Dutch women in New Amsterdam.
Author: Andrea Mosterman
Author: Dennis Maika
Author: Ramona Hernandez
Author: Graham Hodges
Date: 03/11/2023
Location: Fordham University Lincoln Center, 140 West 62nd Street
Primary URL: http://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/meet-our-panelists-culture-and-community-in-early-new-york/
Primary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's website, which shares each panelist's educational and professional background from this panel discussion. No video recording is available for this panel discussion as there were technical difficulties with the recording, and no sound was captured, making it unusable to disseminate to the public.

Indigenous Communities of Greater New York (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Indigenous Communities of Greater New York
Abstract: The New York metropolitan area has yet to reckon with its history of marginalizing indigenous people – specifically the Delaware and Algonquin-speaking communities of the Northeast and Long Island. Chaired by Chritsian Aynne Crouch (Bard College), this panel casts a light on the practices, customs, and traditions of indigenous people. This will include a discussion of diaspora, as many of these communities were forced north, east, or west, as a result of the encroachment from European colonists and American migrants.
Author: Christian Ayne Crouch
Author: Jeremy Dennis
Author: Curtis Zunigha
Date: 04/01/2023
Location: Holy Trinity Church Inwood
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/0cKBIHJdEmg?si=RnT8QyZeWpxhimcl
Primary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's YouTube channel, where the public can view the video recording of this panel discussion.
Secondary URL: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/meet-our-panelists-indigenous-communities-of-upper-manhattan/
Secondary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's website, which shares each panelist's educational and professional background from this panel discussion.

The Atlantic Slave Trade in New York (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: The Atlantic Slave Trade in New York
Abstract: Although most New Yorkers do not recognize the city as a historic slave marketplace, the seaport did act as the western endpoint of the Middle Passage for tens of thousands of people brought to the New World against their will. Similar to much of the colonial North, the Dyckman family was plugged into the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that forcefully relocated 12.5 million West Africans to the New World.
Author: Donnamarie Barnes
Author: Aurélie Vialette
Author: Shanna Sabio
Author: Ramin Ganeshram
Date: 04/20/2023
Location: PS 098
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/rKB2r8q-5ZU?si=8A8-V5i4XJx7HMiD
Primary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's YouTube channel, where the public can view the video recording of this panel discussion.
Secondary URL: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/meet-our-panelists-the-atlantic-slave-trade/
Secondary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's website, which shares each panelist's educational and professional background from this panel discussion.

Slavery in Greater New York (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Slavery in Greater New York
Abstract: Chaired by Dr. Jennifer Anderson (Stony Brook University), this panel examines the lives of enslaved people in New York, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley. Past scholarship has primarily focused on the seaport of lower Manhattan and the labor routines that developed around an urban environment. This panel casts a larger net, inserting the Hudson Valley plantations and the slaveholders of Long Island into this dialogue of slavery in the North.
Author: Jennifer Anderson
Author: Sylvea Hollis
Author: Lauren Brincat
Author: Myra Armstead
Date: 05/06/2023
Location: Holy Trinity Church Inwood
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/a2VByy_C7RM?si=PjMtfPPOa2hy2Uda
Primary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's YouTube channel, where the public can view the video recording of this panel discussion.
Secondary URL: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/meet-our-panelists-slavery-in-greater-new-york/
Secondary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's website, which shares each panelist's educational and professional background from this panel discussion.

Remembering Slavery and Freedom in New York City (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Remembering Slavery and Freedom in New York City
Abstract: Led by Peggy King Jorde, this conversation will center on the Inwood Slave Burial Ground, located several blocks from the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum. This panel focuses on the legacies of slavery in New York City, and how the forced labor regime in remembered and commemorated. Dr. Jorde will speak on her work with the New York Slave Burial Ground located in lower Manhattan, and her recent efforts with the Historic Districts Council in the Bowery.
Author: Peggy King Jorde
Author: Rachel Watkins
Author: Elizabeth Kennedy
Author: Howard Dodson
Date: 08/02/2023
Location: Holy Trinity Church Inwood
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/gTCZFq2rPsQ?si=BsL-E0tTiHcGcsqS
Primary URL Description: The URL above is linked to DFM's YouTube channel, where the public can view the video recording of this panel discussion.

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