ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- They were field hands, cooks, musicians and blacksmiths. Some were "well made," others lame. A few showed ritual tribal scarring from their native Africa, others bore scars inflicted by their masters. All of them - some 600-plus men and women - were black slaves who bolted for freedom in upstate New York in the 1700s and early 1800s.... |