Cambridge University Press14 天
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4 个月
Remarkable Documents Lay Bare New York’s History of Slavery
In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30 ...
New York City considering paying reparations for slavery
The proposals - which are aimed at acknowledging and addressing the impact of slavery in New York City - are yet to be signed ...
BBC5 年
The hidden links between slavery and Wall Street
A tour group photographs a sign marking the location of New York City's slave market This month marks 400 years since enslaved Africans were first brought to what is now the United States of America.
For enslaved people, the holiday season was a time for revelry — and a brief window to ...
This commentary originally appeared in The Conversation. During the era of slavery in the Americas, enslaved men, women and ...
PBS8 年
The Growth of Slavery in North America
Is not the slave trade entirely at war with the heart ... White fear of blacks was also rampant in New York City, which had a density of slaves nearing that of Charleston. In 1741, fires were ...
PBS7 年
Whitman and Race
Newspaper sketch of slave auction in Virginia, 1861. NYPL Digital Gallery, The New York Public Library Early on, Whitman thought abolitionists like William garrison to be extremists, and "the ...
The New York Times22 天
The Smithsonian Looks at How the Slave Trade Shaped the World
“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler “In Slavery’s Wake ...