Here is the source of the map. You can adjust it by decade. https://lincolnmullen.com/projects/slavery/ …
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Note that the State of New York passed a gradual abolition law in 1799. The last remaining enslaved people were freed in 1827.pic.twitter.com/5Qw94ZlSPn
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For those interested in learning about enslaved people in New York City, visit the Dyckman Farmhouse in Inwood. They do a great job of interpreting the lives of enslaved men, women and children on the farm there. My former student is the Dev. Mgr there.https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/
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@DyckmanFarm Some good programs on early black history in NYC and at the Dyckman Farm in the next few weeks too.https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/talking-about-race-matters-feb-mar-2021/ …Show this thread
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You make me want to go back to college.
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Yes.
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I didn’t know this. I’m not a big history buff but I did take all of the required courses and a couple extra as electives. Never learned this.
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They don't like to talk about that for.... reasons
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My parents were never taught it when they grew up in NY schools in the 1950s. NY Hist. Soc. ran a great exhibit about slavery in New York a few years ago. A real eye opener. Not just slave trade and not just domestics. Agricultural slavery on inner Long Island (Kings/Queens).
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It is sometimes claimed that the American Revolution was not at all a revolution, but before it slavery was legal throughout the whole country, and the rhetoric of liberty shamed the north to get slowly started on abolition.
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It played a pretty important role in ending slavery in the North (and Northwest). Pennsylvania's 1780 law was a model for other states and the language of the Act draws directly from the Revolution.pic.twitter.com/2sqoTiIr9X
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