Dyckman Farmhouse Projects 'Slaves Lived Here' In New Exhibition

INWOOD, NY — The words "Slaves Lived Here" will be projected on the front side of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum on Monday and Wednesday night.

The words are part of an art exhibition by Reggie Black called "No Records," which aims to bring attention to the history of slavery at the farmhouse and in New York City.

The Inwood farmhouse at 4881 Broadway sits within a Dutch Colonial style house built on the same site in 1784 and was opened as a museum in 1916.

The public exhibition was inspired by the Dyckman Farmhouse's DyckmanDISCOVERED Initiative, which recently uncovered information about six people who were enslaved by the Dyckman household and whose stories were not recorded in detail by the family.

You can find out more about those six people on the Dyckman Farmhouse website.

“At the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, we’re both looking to the past to uncover ignored histories, and looking to the present to share this information with New Yorkers and underscore its significance,” said Meredith Horsford, Executive Director of the Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Alliance, in a news release. “We have an obligation to shed light on the experiences of underserved and underrepresented marginalized communities. Our museum is eager to continue this service through the impactful work of artists like Reggie Black.”

Black is a multimedia artist, designer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work often circulates around the ideas of design, technology, mental health, transparency, vulnerability, and human connection.

You can see the exhibition clearly from street-level when walking through the intersection at West 204th Street and Broadway.