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A Slave's Walk in Colonial New York
By 1740, almost twenty percent of New York's population was African American and roughly half of white households owned at least one slave. While slaves were forced to live and work alongside whites, they sought out the company of other [...]
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750)
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Excerpt)
In the following passage, historian Jill Lepore carefully considers an enslaved man's walk through 1740s Manhattan. The slave, who was known as Pedro, described a Sunday walk through Manhattan as part of a confession that he gave during the [...]
Item Type: Book (excerpt)
Historical Era: Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750)