Description
People of Lowly Life: Early Persons of African American Heritage in Washington County, N. Y. written by Kenneth A. Perry chronicles the emergence of the African American population in Washington County from an early slave population here, and in the adjoining regions, who established families and became part of the communities of the county, some for well over a century.
From the first early free families in 1800 to their last records in 1940, the individuals, families, migrants and fugitives who lived in the towns of this rural county are traced from their origins in early New York’s slave population into the present day. Where they came from, where some of them went, the places that they called home within the county, and what they did during the time they lived here are covered in a mixture of history, narration and genealogy into the late 20th century.
