Are you aware that New York City had more enslaved Africans than any other American city except Charleston, S.C. before the American Revolution? Did you know that, during that period, 20% of New Yorkers were enslaved, or that - at one point - 40% of New York's households owned slaves? Are you aware that a vast slave cemetery in lower Manhattan is estimated to hold 20,000 graves of African slaves, or that it was discovered during the building of a skyscraper in 1991? Was the cemetery, as evidence seems to indicate, deliberately hidden in an attempt to to conceal New York's complicity in the slave trade?
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/8186/1/296
2006-06-17
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