New York City's Slave Market - The New York Public Library
2015年6月29日 · New York benefited much from slavery and the slave trade: southern cotton and sugar sailed to Europe from its harbor. Banks, insurance companies—among them Aetna, JP Morgan Chase, and New York Life—and lawyers made a brisk business with slaveholders and slave ship owners.
The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Former Slave Market ... - Untapped New York
2015年8月21日 · In June, Mayor de Blasio unveiled a new plaque marking the spot on Wall Street where the slave market once stood, dedicating it to the thousands of enslaved people who passed through....
History of slavery in New York (state) - Wikipedia
In 1711, a formal slave market was established at the end of Wall Street on the East River, and it operated until 1762. [12] An act of the New York General Assembly, passed in 1730, the last of a series of New York slave codes, provided that:
Site of New York Slave Market - Atlas Obscura
2015年7月27日 · The New York Stock Exchange, just up the street, owes its startup capital to an economy fueled by enslaved people and their labor. Today, no evidence remains of the New York Slave Market.
New York City Ran a Slave Market | Smithsonian
2015年4月14日 · In New York’s busy Financial District, money trades hands day in and day out, and fortunes are made. It was that way in the 1700s, too—but the trade included human cargo. Now, a new marker...
New York's Municipal Slave Market - NYC Parks
Within months of the market's construction, New York's first slave uprising occurred a few blocks away on Maiden Lane, led by enslaved people from the Coromantee and Pawpaw peoples of Ghana.
New York’s Municipal Slave Market - The Historical Marker …
2015年7月2日 · On Wall Street, between Pearl and Water Streets, a market that auctioned enslaved people of African ancestry was established by a Common Council law on November 30, 1711. (A historical marker located in Manhattan in New York County, New York.)
A SHORT HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NYC - NYC URBANISM
2019年6月18日 · Slavery continued to be an important source of the city’s labor force into the early 18th century, with 40 percent of white households owning slaves, making New York the largest slave-owning colony in the north. In 1711 a slave …
MAAP | Place Detail: Slave Market - Columbia University
Nearly 1,000 out of about 6,400 New Yorkers were black, and at least 40 percent of the white households included a slave. In these homes, enslaved workers cooked, washed, sewed, hauled water, emptied the chamber pots, swept out the fireplaces …
New York's Municipal Slave Market
New York's Municipal Slave Market. On Wall Street, between Pearl and Water Streets, a market that auctioned enslaved people of African ancestry was established by a Common Council law on November 30, 1711. This slave market was in use until 1762.