SLAVERY IN NEW YORK
Oct. 7 - March 5
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at 77th St
Members & Children under 12: free
Adults: $10
Teachers, Students, Seniors: $5
(B or C trains to 81st Street or M10 bus to 77th Street; M79 to 81st and CPW.)
The story of New York's rootedness in the enslavement of Africans is largely unknown to the general public. For the last 30 years, scholars here and abroad have recovered many fascinating details of the hidden worlds of New York's enslaved people. Among the richest sources for that new scholarship have been the library and museum collections of the New-York Historical Society. Other important materials reside in the New York State Library in Albany, the New York Public Library (especially at the Schomburg Center), the Municipal Archives, and the Gilder Lehrman Collection, now on deposit at N-YHS. In addition, the archaeological investigations that followed the re-discovery of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan have given scholars a new window into the lives of the thousands of Black New Yorkers who found their final peace in this place.
The time has now come to bring this story to a broader public understanding. The Slavery in New York initiative will transform every New Yorker's understanding of this city, past and present. After the next two years, everyone will wonder why this story had never been told before.
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