Join us for a talk by Dr. Maskiell about the community of black people who were married at Stuyvesant's chapel in the bowery in the decades following Petrus Stuyvesant's death, as well as other stories that Dr. Maskiell has compiled about the Stuyvesants, Bayards, their carpenter Frederick Philipse, and the bustling multicultural market nearby as well as those who lived and worked in the village of the bowery. After, Dr. Maskiell and Dr. Jaap Jacobs will engage in a conversation and invite questions.

Dr. Maskiell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of South Carolina and a Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow. She specializes in the colonial history of the Northeast, with a focus on overlapping networks of slavery in the Dutch and British Atlantic worlds. Her book manuscript, Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern Gentry, under contract with Cornell University Press, compares the ways that slavery shaped Northeastern culture by examining the social and kinship networks that intertwined enslavers with those they enslaved. Dr. Maskiell hails from the Midwest but has family ties in upstate New York as well as in the Hudson Valley.