EXPOSING THE LEGACY OF RACISM AND SLAVERY IN NYC
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In 1817, Daniel Tompkins passed a law emancipating all Black NYers born before July 4 1799 as of July 4 1827. On July 4, 1827 slavery ended in New York State. Black NYers chose to celebrate the next day in order to avoid comment on the paradox of slavery & freedom in the US.
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Read the @nytimes feature of Prospect Park Alliance's ReImagine Lefferts initiative. Learn about the Alliance's work to focus programming on the stories of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking + the enslaved Africans who lived + worked on the land: nytimes.com/2023/06/22/arts/…
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Today my students @usahsnyc led a walking tour to educate and uncover the often hidden history of NYC & it’s connections to slavery, both on the side of abolition & supporting the institution @gencitizen @Civics_For_All @cbsix @GI_NewYork @NYHistory @democracyready @slaversofny – at Gramercy, Manhattan
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My students online tour of sites in NYC connected to slavery, both on the side of abolition & supporting its institution has broken 12,000 views! Students are now expanding it to cover all 5 boroughs @Civics_For_All @gencitizen @slaversofny @democracyready goo.gl/maps/dxM947Fsw83LAt2j…
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Read my @nytimes story from last year on this initiative dedicated to calling out the history of slavery in NYC.
nytimes.com/2021/05/07/nyreg…
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I understand why the slaves did what they did. Independence Day represents being independent, freedom from being governed or ruled by another country. Yet the black people were still in bondage had no rights as a citizen in their own country.
Many free Black New Yorkers eventually chose to celebrate the end of slavery in the state on July 5th instead of the 4th, as to not celebrate on the same day as Independence Day. As Frederick Douglass said “what to the slave is the Fourth of July?” #slaversofny
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Slavery in New York began in 1626 when 11 captive Africans arrived on a Dutch West India Company ship. The DWIC was a company of Dutch merchants, heavily involved in the Atlantic Slave Trade, who later employed Peter Stuyvesant who went on to traffic nearly 300 slaves in NYC.
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Though Black New Yorkers won final emancipation on July 4th, 1827, they still lacked important civil rights as universal suffrage, trial by jury for fugitives, and access to licensed occupations. #4thofJuly
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Dont think it was for moral reasons.
European immigrant wage slavery was a better business model for the NY economy.
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A Fort Hamilton street named after Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee is finally being renamed, with its new moniker honoring Brooklyn native and Medal of Honor recipient First Lieutenant John Earl Warren Jr. brooklynpaper.com/general-le…
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Lefferts Manor is named for the Dutch colonial family who built it; they were also one of the largest owners of slaves in Brooklyn.
Lefferts is not easily recognized as a typical Dutch name. It derived from the first name Leffert.
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Boerum Hill––as I've learned from @slaversofny, Boerum was a slaveowner, and there isn't even a hill
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Garret, Jacob, Albert, Aaron, Issac, Cornelius, Foster, James, Foster, George, Garret V, Losee, Stephen and William Van Nostrand we’re all slave owners. In modern day Long Island and Brooklyn & Queens
Source: nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.ed… – at Brooklyn, NY
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I saw this sticker while getting coffee and I just had to verify for myself. – at Brooklyn, NY
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Thank you for coming! Looking forward to working with you!
Big thank you to @DyckmanFarm for giving the Slavers of NY team a tour and sharing the history of the farmhouse. We are looking forward to potential collaboration in the near future!
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Episode 324 of BFW is out now! @ACMosterman joins to explore what life was like in New Netherland and early New York, especially for the enslaved people who did much of the work to build this Dutch, and later English, colony. #VastEarlyAmerica benfranklinsworld.com/episod…
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Recovering history one street at a time. @slaversofny
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How @slaversofny uses stickers to unveil NYC's hidden history of slavery untap.nyc/35Hm66u
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In case anyone was wondering what we are about! ✨🤌🏾
In honor of Women’s History Month. We will be highlight the black indigenous women that lived during that time of History in NYC.
#WomensHistoryMonth #flatbushafricanburialground #brooklyn #flatbush #BLM
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And a big thank you to @slaversofny for giving #BUGS students so much to think about this #BlackHistoryMonth and all your work to expose the legacy of slavery in New York City.
A big thank you to @BUGSschoolBK for giving the Slavers of NY team the opportunity to talk about our work with your 7th graders. We had a great time!
