Posted on 03/17/2006 8:50:53 AM PST by High Cotton
Teaching about the slave trade "is the right thing to do," Wright said. "Absent South Carolina, the biggest importer of slaves was New York City."
The New York Historical Society recently presented an exhibition on slavery in New York that featured documents, paintings, video and sculpture.
In lower Manhattan, a long-lost burial ground where thousands of slaves and free blacks were laid to rest during the 18th century was recently declared a national monument by President Bush.
Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, but when the American Revolution began in 1776, the only city with more slaves than New York was Charleston, South Carolina.
Oyster Bay eighth-grader Fiona Brunner said she was amazed to find out there were slaves buried near Oyster Bay.
"You always think that happened so far away, only in the South, and a lot of it was right here in our town," she said.
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>>>He cited an 1877 passage from the diary of Harris Underhill, reporting on a visit to the family homestead near Oyster Bay: "On this farm are buried sixty slaves which once belonged to the Underhills."
The diary entry is from an 1877 visit to the family homestead. It does not indicate when the sixty slaves were buried or if they were the property of the Underhills at the time of their death. Since the article notes that slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, I assume they were buried there many years ealier or perhaps more recently as free men.
Looks like you are correct. Thanks.
Good question! I really haven't gotten any impressions much less solid statements on that. It would probably also depend on the state - not all would have to do the same thing.
Don't think the Republican party was all high and mighty over this. They did alot of bad things then, manipulating and enacting more rules, increasing gov. power greatly, probably more than had ever happened before. It wasn't until the turn of the century at least that things started switching and the Dems became the socialists.
I grew up in suburban Chicago. Northerners paint themselves as open-minded saints as far as race relations are concerned, but I know from personal observation that there are just as many bigots up there as in the South. But the winner writes the history forever, so Southerners are all ignorant hillbillies.
I just wanted to point out that althought there were slaves in the North. The slaves were orignally sold by their own people and brought to America. It is also true that the republicans were the ones that were against slavery.
"Singer also tries to engage the students by using rap. Though he admits he's an awful rapper, he dons a T-shirt and cap (appropriately askew) and presses on anyway: "Time to learn the truth, our local his-to-ry, that Long Island was the land of slave-r-ry.""
OoooKay...., this is a bit
a) stupid (rapping)
b) pandering (rapping)
c) too much ("land of slavery" - come on; it was more than that)
Something I have also wondered about. I have tried to research it, but have never been able to find any real numbers.
If most northern slaves were just sold South rather than freed when they abolished slavery, it makes the two sections a lot more morally equivalent on the issue.
If you run across accurate estimates, please let me know.
southernping
Not really. Republicans may have had that as part of the platform, but too many Northerners were outraged at the thought of fighting a war over blacks/slavery for it to actually be important to all of them. I think abolitionists only made up ~10% of the (northern) population.
The original African slaves were in fact, indentured servants, meaning that their servitude had a fixed contractual limit.
And General Grant's wife's slaves were not released until after the Civil War.
some of them make the KKK-lunatics seem normal & sweet-natured.
free dixie,sw
Beg to differ. The Republican party was formed in 1854 in Ripon Wisconsin specifically to eliminate slavery. The poitical parties of the day refused to deal with this issue and we wished to do so. 11 years later, in 1865, we destroyed slavery.
NY had implemented gradual emancipation earlier--I think 1827 was when the slaves born earlier were finally freed, but some states didn't pass such a law to free the older slaves.
Even during the Civil War Lincoln was willing to accept gradual emancipation in the loyal slave states (but had a hard time persuading any of the states to do that).
Illinois was a free state because of the Northwest Ordinance, but slaves were hired from Kentucky to work in Illinois.
in case you didn't know, the GOP of today does NOT even resemble the republican party of 1860.
the DIMocRATS are the LEFTIST, radical, "civil rights party" today & that is why they are the PERMANENT & DYING party, nationally.
free dixie,sw
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