New York State Convention of Colored Citizens

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The New York State Convention of Colored Citizens was a series of colored convention events active from 1840 until 1891 in various cities in New York state.{{Cite journal |last=Herron |first=Paul E. |date=April 2022 |title="This Crisis of Our History": The Colored Conventions Movement and the Temporal Construction of Southern Politics |journal=Studies in American Political Development |language=en |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=21–40 |doi=10.1017/S0898588X21000122 |s2cid=246985506 |issn=0898-588X|doi-access=free }} The convention was one of several social movement conventions that took place in the mid-19th century in many states across the United States.{{Cite web |title=State Conventions |url=https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/state-conventions |website=Colored Conventions Project, University of Delaware}}

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The Albany convention was held on August 18–20, 1840, and discussed a number of topics including politics, race relations, and the state of African-American businesses.{{Cite web |title=1840 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens held in Albany |url=https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/collections/show/14 |access-date=2020-02-25 |website=Colored Conventions Project, University of Delaware}}{{Cite journal|last=Bell|first=Howard H.|date=October 1957|title=National Negro Conventions of the Middle 1840s: Moral Suasion vs. Political Action|journal=The Journal of Negro History|language=en|volume=42|issue=4|pages=247–260|doi=10.2307/2715512|jstor=2715512|s2cid=149806791 |issn=0022-2992}}

The 1857 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens was held on September 23–24, 1857 at Spring Street Hall in New York City, with chair Rev. James Scott, and secretary W. J. Watkins. Topics varied and included ending slavery with a focus on southern states, and current issues facing Black Americans in New York state. Attendees of the 1857 event included abolitionist Jeremiah Powers, Willis Augustus Hodges, and Rev. Henry Highland Garnet.

New York state held a many national conventions (including in New York City, Buffalo, Troy, and Rochester); including the Buffalo convention in 1843, and the Troy convention in 1847. The 1853 National Convention of the Free People of Color in Rochester was attended by Stephen Smith, who was an abolitionist also active in the Pennsylvania conventions.{{Cite web |title=Smith, Stephen |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/african-american-focus/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/smith-stephen |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=Encyclopedia.com}}

= State events =

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1840 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, Albany
1841 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, Troy
1843 New York State Convention of Colored People, Rochester
1844 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, Schenectady
1845 New York State Free Suffrage Convention, Geneva
1851 New York State Convention of Colored People, Albany
1854 New York State Council of Colored People, Albany
1855 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, Albany
1855 New York State Convention of Colored Men, Troy
1857 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, New York City{{Cite news |date=1857-09-25 |title=Free-Suffrage Convention--Second Day's Proceedings. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1857/09/25/archives/freesuffrage-conventionsecond-days-proceedings.html |access-date=2023-01-31 |issn=0362-4331}}
1858 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, Troy{{Cite news |date=1858-10-07 |title=Gerrit Smith and his Colored Friends. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1858/10/07/archives/gerrit-smith-and-his-colored-friends.html |access-date=2023-01-31 |issn=0362-4331}}
1863 State Convention of Colored Citizens, Poughkeepsie
1866 New York State Convention of Colored Men, Albany
1870 New York State Convention of Colored Voters, Syracuse
1870 New York State Labor Convention, Saratoga Springs
1872 New York State Convention of Colored Men, Troy
1874 New York State Convention of Colored Citizens, Utica
1891 New York State Convention of the Afro-American League

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= National events =

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1843 National Convention of Colored Citizens, Buffalo, New York
1847 National Convention of Colored People and Their Friends, Troy, New York
1850 Fugitive Slave Convention, Cazenovia, New York
1853 National Convention of the Free People of Color, Rochester, New York
1864 National Convention of Colored Men, Syracuse, New York
1896 Conference of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, New York
1909 National Negro Convention, New York City, New York{{Cite book |last=Ward |first=William Hayes |url=http://archive.org/details/proceedingsof00nati |title=Proceedings of the National Negro Conference 1909. New York, May 31 and June 1 |date=1909 |publisher=National Negro Conference |others=New York Public Library |location=New York, N.Y. |via=Internet Archive}}