An 18th century slave market on Wall Street
Slavery in New York City? It thrived from Dutch days through British rule. By the 1720s, one out of every five residents was owned by another. The first slaves, 11 African men, came to New Amsterdam in...
View ArticleA lynching on a Greenwich Village street in 1863
At 6 p.m. on the hot evening of July 13, 1863, William Jones, an African-American cartman, left his Clarkson Street home to buy a loaf of bread. He couldn’t have known that a vicious mob enraged by the...
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