Slavery & resistance in NYC
Subtitle: (1626-1865)
By: [a walking tour created by Mariame Kaba ; digitized by Fatimazohra Koli and the Empirical Reasoning Center, Barnard College]
Contributors: Barnard College. Empirical Reasoning Center
Publisher: Barnard College Empirical Reasoning Center
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery; History; Study and teaching; Slave trade; African Americans; Civil rights; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists; Slavery and the church
Other titles: Slavery and resistance in New York City :
Description: The Atlantic Slave Trade was the largest forced migration in world history. Twelve million Africans were captured and enslaved in the Americas. More than 90 per day for 400 years. Over 40,000 ships brought enslaved Africans across the ocean. Though New York passed an act to gradually abolish slavery in 1799 and manumitted the last enslaved people in 1827, it remained an intrinsic part of city life until after the Civil War, as businesspeople continued to profit off of the products of the slave trade like sugar and molasses imported from the Caribbean.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Mariame Kaba ; Fatimazohra Koli, associate director of the Empirical Reasoning Center, Barnard College
Table of contents: title: Walking tour; title: Background; title: Further reading