Work to rebuild the Southampton home of Pyrrhus Concer — a man who was enslaved and later become a whaler and world traveler — as a history and education center could begin this fall, advocates said.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- His obituary described him as one of the most respected residents of the Hamptons. But the important legacy of former slave Pyrrhus Concer was lost in the last century ...

Pyrrhus Concer's house will be demolished, but it will rise again. Southampton Village Mayor Mark Epley said the village will save pieces of the former slave and ferry captain's 19th-century home ...

Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored. Brenda Simmons ...