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"The colony of New York in 1712."
Illustrated map of of New York in 1712 showcasing the Slave Market. -
Close up screenshot of The Bradford Plan: An early survey map of New York in 1730 under British control (A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey.)
Early map of British New York with translated or transformed street names from the Dutch period. -
Colonial Governor Robert Hunter (1710-1720) account of the New York Slave Revolt of 1712.
Governor's letter on page 342 describing the New York Slave Revolt of 1712. -
New Amsterdam highlighted within present-day Lower Manhattan.
Screenshot from the YouTube video "What's left of New Amsterdam in Lower Manhattan - 2/4" at 1:01. Uploaded by New Netherland Now. -
Painting of Dutch colonials' involvement in the African slave trade.
The first slave auction in New Amsterdam 1655. Engraving after illustration by Howard Pyle in 1895. -
Part 1 (pg 1-6) of The record of municipal laws affecting the activities and movements of the black population in 18th century British New York.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control. -
Part 2 (pg 7-12) of The record of municipal laws affecting the activities and movements of the black population in 18th century British New York.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control. -
Part 3 (pg 13-18) of The record of municipal laws affecting the activities and movements of the black population in 18th century British New York.
Essay of the different municipal laws that have directly affected the black population in New York during18th century British control. -
Questions of a Dutch-period slave market, and the establishment of the Slave Block in British-period New York.
Documented inquiries on the existence of a public slave market during 17th century Dutch period, along with the documented establishment of a Slave Market in 18th century British New York. -
Redrawing of the 1660 Castello Plan of New Amsterdam.
1916 redraft of the original drawing in the Biblioteca-Medicea Laurenziana of Florence, Italy. The drawing was prepared under the supervision of I.N. Phelps Stokes. -
Slave Trade and the Broadway Market (Wall Street)
Documentation of black New Yorkers in public space in the 1700s. Mentions of the slave market, and the slave revolts of 1712 and 1741. -
The arrival and treatment of the Dutch's West India Company's enslaved Africans.
Simon Williamson's founded research on the arrival West India Company slaves, along with examples of enslaved black people buying their freedom and white colonists being punished for interacting with a black person during the Dutch Period. -
The Bradford Plan: An early survey map of New York in 1730 under British control (A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey.)
Early survey map of British New York in 1730 with translated or transformed street names from the Dutch period, like Pearl Street (Dutch translation: Paerl Straet) becoming Queen Street. Or, an English translation of original Dutch names like Hoogh Straet translated into High Street, then called Duke Street after the Duke of York, only to be name Stone Street in 1794 for being the first street in the city paved with cobblestone. -
The Duke of York Laws (1665-75). Including the 1665 English rule that no Christians can be held in slavery.
Legal history document of the Duke of Charter Laws were set in the New York colony with references to discriminatory laws against the colony's black population, such as the 1665 law of no Christians being held in slavery. -
The Dutch Church of early 17th century New Amsterdam and its stance on Black New Yorkers being Christians.
A collection of excerpts pertaining to slavery in the Dutch Period and the Church's stance towards converting black people, freed or enslaved, into Christians. As well as the moral clashing of the Church with the presence of slavery. -
The New York Gazette's advertisements of runaway enslaved people and slave market schedules.
Collection of advertisements from the New York Gazette about runaway enslaved people and some that are scheduled to be sold. -
West India Company's laws extending protections towards the company's enslaved laborers.
Documentation of the West India Company's protection over what they referred to as "company property" in the Dutch colony.