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Hace 4 días · And while New York legally ended slavery in 1827, 38 years before the 13th amendment abolished it in the United States, having ties to a place named for a slave owner is uncomfortable for...
Hace 6 días · Slave owners such as William Dyckman, Peter Stuyvesant, and John Jay were among the most recognizable names in New York City. According to the New York Times, at one point, 40% of...
Hace 1 día · May 27, 2024. In 1991, construction workers in New York City made a startling discovery. While excavating a plot of land for a new federal office building, they unearthed human remains – the skeletal remnants of what would turn out to be a 6.6-acre burial ground containing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 African men, women and children.
Hace 1 día · Between 1819 and 1860, 71,000 enslaved people were transported to New Orlean's slave market on slave ships that departed from ports in the United States along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans to supply the demand for slaves in the Deep South.
Hace 5 días · On April 7, 1712, nearly two dozen slaves in the colony of New York rose up in defiance, torching houses and taking to the streets to foment a larger rebellion.
17 de may. de 2024 · In 1712, Manhattan's population was about 6,000 living in an area twenty blocks long by 10 blocks wide; 10-15% of those inhabitants were enslaved Africans. Within this small area, slaves lived with their masters and worked along side white servants and other slaves.
21 de may. de 2024 · Excavations at the Van Cortlandt Mansion, the central structure of an eighteenth-century plantation located in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York, highlight the difficulty of using archaeological evidence to document the story of enslavement in early America.
