A partnership of the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project, the Office of the Dutchess County Historian, and the Stanford Historical Society is planning a 2019 commemoration of a seminal event in the history of our nation \u2026 and in the history of Dutchess County.<\/p>\n
On February 13, 1819, Congressman James A. Tallmadge, Jr., a native of the town of Stanford here in Dutchess County, introduced an amendment to the bill to admit the Missouri Territory into the Union as a state. The amendment called for the prohibition of slavery within the state and sparked a debate across the country that nearly provoked a civil war in 1820. The Tallmadge Amendment, as it came to be known, and the ensuing Missouri Crisis constitute an almost-forgotten example of Dutchess County\u2019s impact on national and international history.<\/p>\n
We are organizing a commemorative event for Sunday, February 10, 2019<\/strong><\/em>, to explore Congressman Tallmadge\u2019s stand against slavery and the long history of Dutchess County\u2019s fight for the abolition of slavery. The program will take place at BANGALLWORKS <\/strong>[site of the former Bangall Whaling Company] in the hamlet of Bangall, beginning at 1:30pm.<\/strong><\/em> Our presenter, Mr. John R. Van Atta, is a globally-recognized authority on the Missouri Crisis and the author of the critically-acclaimed volume Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819-1821<\/em>.<\/p>\n The program is free. Parking will be available at the Red Devon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A partnership of the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project, the Office of the Dutchess County Historian, and the Stanford Historical Society is planning a 2019 commemoration of a seminal event in the history of our nation \u2026 and in the history of Dutchess County. On February 13, 1819, Congressman James A. Tallmadge, Jr., a native of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}