In late 1673, Louis Dubois purchased two enslaved Africans named Anthony and Susanna from the Dutch sheriff in what is now Kingston, NY. This is the earliest recorded purchase of enslaved Africans by a European founder of the community we now call New Paltz. However, Anthony and Susanna fled from Dubois in early 1674, crossing the Hudson River and returning to the plantation of their former enslaver, Col. Lewis Morris, in what is now the Bronx. Over the following 6 years, Dubois and Morris engaged in a drawn out and bitter legal dispute over ownership of Anthony and Susanna. In this presentation, Historic Huguenot Street’s Tour & Interpretation Manager, Eddie Moran, will guide attendees through an array of 17th century documents to reveal Anthony and Susanna’s powerful story of agency and resistance. 

This program will be presented entirely online via a link provided after registration.

Eddie Moran currently serves as the Tour & Interpretation Manager at Historic Huguenot Street, and as a historical researcher for the Dr Margaret Wade Lewis Center, in New Paltz. He graduated with a B.A. in History from SUNY New Paltz in the Spring of 2020. Eddie began work as a tour guide at Historic Huguenot Street in 2017 and has overseen guided tours and interpretation full-time at HHS since January of 2022. He is a lifelong resident of the New Paltz area, and a descendant of New Paltz’s Huguenot and Dutch colonizers.

$8 General Admission

$5 Discounted Admission for seniors, students, active-duty military personnel and their families, and veterans

FREE for HHS members

This program is sponsored by Jim DeMaio, State Farm Insurance Agent and is, additionally, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.