Spaces of Enslavement: A Conversation with Dr. Andrea Mosterman

Old First invites the community for a conversation about the history of slavery in NYC (including the role played by churches like Old First) with Dr. Andrea Mosterman on Sunday, May 5 at 1pm at Old First Reformed Church, 729 Carroll Street, in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

This free event is sponsored by:

Remembrance & Racial Justice Working Group

Old First Reformed Church

729 Carroll Street at 7th Avenue

Brooklyn, New York

Dr. Andrea Mosterman is a historian who explores slavery, the slave trade, and cross-cultural contact in the Dutch Atlantic and Early America, with special emphasis on early New York. Her book, Spaces of Enslavement: A History of Slavery and Resistance in Dutch New York, investigates practices of enslavement in New Netherland and then in New York, showing that these systems of racialized spatial control held much in common with southern plantation societies. Her book won the 2020 Hendricks Award for best book-length manuscript related to New Netherland and the Dutch colonial experience.

She has published work in, among others, the Journal of African History and Early American Studies, and she curated the digital exhibit “Slavery in New Netherland” for the New Netherland Institute.

Dr. Mosterman was born and raised in the Netherlands and is currently the Joseph Tregle Endowed Professor in Early American History at the University of New Orleans.