Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, N.Y. 10701                            Phone: (914) 965-4027                                                                                            

For Immediate Release: April 3, 2023                                                          

Contact: Sarah Wassberg Johnson, Education & Programs Manager, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site | Sarah.Johnson@parks.ny.gov | (914) 965-4027

Philipse Manor Hall STATE HISTORIC SITE Hosts Talk on

The Story of Manhattan by Charles Hemstreet, 1923

Resistance to Enslavement in Colonial New York

YONKERS, N.Y.  (04/03/23) — On Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site is pleased to present “Insurrection, Conspiracy, and Resistance in Colonial New York” with Michael Lord. Slavery was prevalent throughout New Netherland and early New York. Colonial New York City was the location for two large scale insurrections and conspiracies planned and enacted by the city’s sizable enslaved community. Not surprisingly, individuals enslaved by the Philipse family played a role in both plots. Join historian and Philipse Manor Hall’s Site Director, Michael A. Lord, as he discusses the 1712 Insurrection, Conspiracy of 1741, and other methods of resistance carried out by the enslaved community in 18th century New York.

Michael A. Lord is the Historic Site Director at Philipse Manor Hall. A practiced public historian, Mr. Lord has decades of experience in research and content development at numerous museums and historic sites. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the College of William & Mary with degrees in African American studies, American History, and American studies, and specializes in presenting the complex and often underrepresented stories of the colonial African American experience.

Michael A. Lord

Tickets: In-person tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for students and seniors. Call 914-965-4027 or email sarah.johnson@parks.ny.gov to reserve your in-person seat. Doors open at 6:45 pm, pay at the door. Virtual tickets are free, but registration is required. Visit www.philipsemanorhall.com/programs-and-events to register to receive the virtual link.  

Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, located at 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY, 10701, is open for tours Wednesdays through Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. General admission tickets are $6 for adults, $3 for seniors and students, and kids 12 & under get in free.

Dating back to the 1680s, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site sits near the confluence of the Nepperhan (Saw Mill) and Hudson Rivers, the site of a Munsee Lunaape village. Used by four generations of the Philipse family and worked by the people they enslaved and European tenant farmers, the Philipse Manor was once over 200,000 acres and helped make the Philipse family the richest in New York. Loyalists during the American Revolution, they fled to England and the Hall was owned by several individuals before becoming the Yonkers Village Hall and later Yonkers City Hall. When a new City Hall was built in the early 20th century, the house was preserved through the generosity of Eva Smith Cochran and donated to New York State to serve as a historic site. Today, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site provides visitors with a balanced approach to interpreting the lives of Indigenous, European, and African people to understand the complex relationships that took place at the Manor from the earliest days of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland to the American Revolution and beyond. Learn more at Philipse Manor Hall’s Virtual Wing at www.philipsemanorhall.com.

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