Welcome to Black Staten Island. A blog about the interesting history of Staten Island African Americans.
So you should know...getting started on any writing project is always the difficult part for me.
In my mind (disclaimer) I believe that I have great ideas and poignant thoughts that need to be shared with the world…but somehow I always seem to stop short before producing that amazing, groundbreaking introduction many how-to websites tell you must happen if anyone is going to pay attention to you. So after days, no weeks of pondering how I was going to dazzle my new and hopefully excited audience, I decided to just tell you who I am and what I’m trying to accomplish.
My brief bio to the right pretty much says it all. I’m an independent scholar whose sole purpose is to tell the full long history of Staten Island African Americans from the early 17th century to the modern day issues they face. However, the majority of the information and posts I share will focus on the 19th century as that is my specialty.
I plan to tell stories of the Underground Railroad and escapes to freedom; I’ll shed light on the triumphs and failures of the black community and I intend to expose the years of racism that the Staten Island African American community has had to endure and overcome. But mostly, I hope to offer information in story form about a diverse group of people who lived in many communities across the island and whose story has been ignored for far too long.
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