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Samuel Anderson: The Last Flatbush Slave
Augustus W. Harris
Samuel Anderson, my great-great-grandfather, was born 17 February 1813 at Jeremiah Lott’s farm, on Flatbush Avenue near Cortelyou Road. His mother was Isabella Butler, a slave in Jeremiah Lott’s house, while his father, Samuel Anderson, was owned by Richard Remsen.
In 1813, Flatbush Town, a small farming community, was the leading center for slave holding in Kings County. Seventy-three percent of its households owned at least one slave and over sixty percent owned five or more slaves. The average per household was 5.7 slaves.
Stories about Flatbush farm life say the farms produced almost everything they needed, including supplies, clothing and food. Farmers divided the work by gender and everyone (slaves, owners, and bond servants) shared the chores.
Men collected timber, cultivated and harvested crops, tended animals, hunted, and mended tools. Women were responsible for the domestic work, including cooking, sewing, washing, ironing, soap and candle making, egg gathering, and taking care of poultry. Slaves, both male and female, were also responsible for tending the fireplace, cleaning the chimney, and slaughtering animals.
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April 19
NYPL - Finding Your Family Genealogy Research for Beginners
Learn about library resources such as newspapers, municipal databases, Ancestry.com, and related tools to begin researching your family history or ...
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April 26
NYPL - Getting Started in Genealogy Research
Join the New York Public Library's St. Agnes Library in this introductory class in Genealogy using NYPL Databases. This class will ...
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April 28
NYPL - An Introduction to African-American Genealogy Research
From 1565 to 1790, Africans comprised over a third of the roughly one million newcomers to what would become the ...
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April 28
“Slavery and Abolition: Formative Moments of the American University in the Northeast”
In 2003, President Ruth Simmons of Brown University appointed a special committee to explore Brown University’s historical relationship to slavery and ...
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May 8
"The Peoples of the West Indies & Their History," by Diane Warmsley
Please join us for our general membership meeting. Registration information to come. Our featured presenter, Diane M. Warmsley, is a ...
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May 12
NYPL - Newspapers in Genealogy Research
Discover the abundant uses of historical newspapers for genealogical and local history information in the numerous digital collections available at New ...
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May 19
"Deep Roots of a Nation" NGS 2021 National Conference
The NGS 2021 Family History Conference program will feature a variety of lecture tracks. Session topics will include African American, ...
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