We are really proud that New York state is only the second state to establish a statewide effort to look at reparations and ...

that a General commanding an army has the right to declare all the slaves within his reach free. Not of course that they will be so in fact until his military power can be brought to bear upon the ...

When people think of “slavery,” they think of “whips and ... Celli, Jr. and Eric Abrams, lawyers at New York-based law firm ECBAWM, to represent her. She is seeking unspecified damages.

Militia units from New York and Westchester were mustered, as were soldiers from a nearby fort. Twenty-seven slaves were soon captured. Of these, six committed suicide. The rest were executed ...

The women interviewed by Mother Jones described arriving in New York City and being forced to share ... “It is like modern-day slavery,” Blais said, adding that “most of the girls in the ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

as well as two slaves and a prostitute who were regulars at the tavern. They were all tried by the New York Supreme Court. All denied knowing anything about the conspiracy. All were hanged.