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    "title": "Enslavement to Freedom: A Conversation on Interpreting and Commemorating New York State’s History of Enslavement",
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    "abstract": "In June 2025, the Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Program separated from the National Park Service. This significantly altered the projects of each Fellow. As part of the second cohort of Fellows, Shanleigh Corrallo has embarked on a research project on enslavement in New York in collaboration with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP, or Parks) and Skidmore College. Corrallo has applied her scholarship on African American history to positions in executive-level policy and advocacy, data analysis, and higher education for reentering students. In her partnership with OPRHP, Corrallo will work with Lavada Nahon, interpreter of African American History at OPRHP. Nahon has over 25 years of experience in New York State (NYS) Black history, with an emphasis on the 17th–19th centuries, including culinary and Black culture. In this interview, which evolves into an exploratory conversation, Nahon and Corrallo discuss what guided them to study histories of enslavement in New York, the “nuts and bolts” of their research, and how to break through to public audiences when faced with calcified narratives of Revolutionary history. The two scholars also share thoughts on the historic “roots and routes” of Black resistance and White reticence regarding histories that challenge hero narratives and recenter enslaved people, and offer differing perspectives on “empathetic” or “emotional” history.  The conversation concludes with behind-the-scenes details about OPRHP’s initiatives Our Whole History and Enslavement to Freedom, and wisdom from Nahon on how to counteract the heightened silencing of African American history.",
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    "date_published": "2026-01-15T10:00:00+02:00",
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