[jimwatx]

We didn’t have slavery in NY so what is she talking about?

[jimwatx]

After looking it up I guess I was wrong.

[jeffersondem]

“We didn’t have slavery in NY so what is she talking about?”

Then what were they selling at the corner of Wall and Water streets?

https://untappedcities.com/2015/08/21/the-top-ten-secrets-of-nyc-former-slave-market-wall-street/

[Bull Snipe]

“We didn’t have slavery in NY so what is she talking about?”

You did have slavery in New York.

It was not until March 31, 1817 that the New York legislature ended two centuries of slavery within its borders, setting July 4, 1827 as the date of final emancipation and making New York the first state to pass a law for the total abolition of legal slavery. When Emancipation Day finally arrived, the number of slaves freed was roughly 4,600 men, women and children or about 11% of the black population living in New York.

[justme4now]

That's nothing.
Before it became New York it was called New Amsterdam!
Why is that important?

Well ..

The Royal African Company

Chartered by Charles II in 1672 and headed by his brother the Duke of York for more than two decades, the Royal African Company held a monopoly on trade with Africa which included gold, silver and slaves.

From 1680-86, the company transported an average of 5,000 slaves per year, most of which were shipped to colonies in the Caribbean and Virginia.

Thousands of slaves arrived in the New World with the company’s initials branded on their chests.

Why did I think it important to post this very short history of a company that probably few have ever heard of?

New York!

Since the Virtue Signalers are demanding that everything that is offensive to blacks be torn down or renamed .. why not start with New York?

After all, New York was named after the great Trader of African Slaves, the head of The Royal African Company ... King James II, also known as the Duke of York.
(Heck .. The family that owns the New York Times were slaveholders!)