coenraet

Updated: January 16, 2026

Fully two hundred years before, Tom Burghardt had come through the western pass from the Hudson with his Dutch captor, "Coenraet Burghardt," sullen in his slavery and achieving his freedom by volunteering for the Revolution at a time of sudden alarm.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - Darkwater : Voices from Within the Veil