Question: In what year was slavery eliminated in the state containing the island where the novel Great Gatsby took place?

<P0-S0> Mentions of Long Island secession range from 1896 to 2010. <P0-S1> Long Island, a large island directly south of New England, has made attempts in the past to secede from New York and become its own state. <P0-S2> The proposed 51st state has also speculated the combination of Nassau and Suffolk counties into one county in order to reduce costs. <SEP> <P1-S0> Under New York State's gradual abolition act of 1799, children of slave mothers were born to be eventually liberated but were held in indentured servitude until their mid-to-late twenties. <P1-S1> Together with slaves freed by their masters after the Revolutionary War and escaped slaves, a significant free-black population gradually developed in Manhattan. <P1-S2> It was not until 1827 that slavery was completely abolished in the state, and free blacks struggled afterward with discrimination. <P1-S3> Under such influential United States founders as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, the New York Manumission Society worked for abolition and established the African Free School to educate black children. <P1-S4> New York interracial abolitionist activism continued; among its leaders were graduates of the African Free School. <P1-S5> The city's black population reached more than 16,000 in 1840. <SEP> <P2-S0> The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. <P2-S1> Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. <P2-S2> The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. <SEP> <P3-S0> uncle tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by american author harriet beecher stowe. <P3-S1> published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward african americans and slavery in the u.s. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the civil war".stowe, a connecticut-born teacher at the hartford female seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of uncle tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. <P3-S2> the sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.uncle tom's cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the bible. <P3-S3> it is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. <P3-S4> in the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the united states; one million copies in great britain. <P3-S5> in 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." <P3-S6> the impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when abraham lincoln met stowe at the start of the civil war, lincoln declared, "so this is the little lady who started this great war." <P3-S7> the quote is <SEP> <P4-S0> the first series of the great british bake off, first aired on bbc two on 17 august 2010. ten home bakers took part in a bake - off to test every aspect of their baking skills as they battled to be crowned the great british bake off's best amateur baker. <P4-S1> each week the nationwide tour saw bakers put through three challenges in a particular discipline, with some being eliminated from competition at the end of the episode. <P4-S2> the rounds of the competition took place in various locations across the uk following a theme, for example, the episode on puddings would take place in bakewell, bread baking would take place near sandwich. <P4-S3> this first series had a voiceover by stephen noonan; for the subsequent series this role was taken by the on - screen presenters mel giedroyc and sue perkins. <P4-S4> the competition was won by edd kimber.