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The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300247336. Oltman, Adele (November 5, 2007). "The Hidden History of Slavery in New York". The Nation. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019; Lydon, James G. (April 1978). "New York and the Slave Trade, 1700-1774".
The English had renamed the colony the Province of New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the Mayors of New York. The city grew northward and remained the largest and most important city in the Province of New York, becoming the third largest in the British Empire after ...
The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured another six before they were stopped. More than 70 black people were arrested and jailed. Of these, 27 were put on trial, and 21 convicted and executed.
In 1702, the first of the New York slave codes were passed, which further limited freedom of the African community in New York. African land ownership in the area was effectively ended by anti-Black legislation passed after the New York Slave Revolt of 1712 , which included a ban on inheritance of property.
The settlement of New Amsterdam was renamed New York after the Duke of York. Over the following decades, the new colonial administration gradually eroded the rights of the Free Black population in New York, and after a 1712 slave rebellion, a series of slave codes were passed which forbade Black New Yorkers from owning property. [8]
New York State began emancipating slaves in 1799, and in 1841, all slaves in New York State were freed, and many of New York's emancipated slaves lived in or moved to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. [13] [14] All slaves in the United States were later freed in 1865, with the end of the American Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment ...
Slavery in New York State was not fully abolished until 1827. [ 9 ] One of the earliest cartographic references to the Flatbush African Burial Ground is an 1855 map by Teunis G. Bergen , showing the "Negro Burying Ground" to the northeast of Erasmus Hall High School , which Bergen attended.
New York City attracted a large polyglot population, including a large black slave population. [19] In 1674, the proprietary colonies of East Jersey and West Jersey were created from lands formerly part of New York. [20] Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of Quaker William Penn.