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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Katherine Hawkins — Reviving Black history in Schoharie County
Description: In 1914, John Daniels wrote “In Freedom’s Birthplace; a Study of the Boston Negroes.” Eighty-five years later, his son, Jack Daniels, wrote “Discovering the Forgotten History of African Americans in Schoharie County.”The language like the location had changed, but the mission was the same: To uncover and tell a largely unwritten part of American history.Jack Daniels writes in the introduction to his 1999 book, “I hope there will be others who wish to add to or amend the historical record; also to keep it up to date.”Starting today, Oct. 21, the Schoharie County Histori...