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To: ncountylee

>>>The corrupt democrat machine, Tammany Hall, seized power in NY in 1855 and ruled for the next 70 years. Slavery could not exist without Tammany Hall's approval.

I don't think Tammany Hall had much to do with this. Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827


12 posted on 03/17/2006 9:10:22 AM PST by NC28203
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To: NC28203
Singer, who is a social studies education professor, uses 18th and 19th century newspaper ads from slave owners seeking help in capturing their runaway slaves on Long Island, as well as diaries and other publications to document the slave trade in New York.

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."

From the article.

17 posted on 03/17/2006 9:13:55 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: NC28203

And General Grant's wife's slaves were not released until after the Civil War.


36 posted on 03/17/2006 9:44:19 AM PST by Spirited
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