Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

created this depiction of a slave auction in New Amsterdam (later to be renamed New York). New Amsterdam, a town on the tip of Manhattan Island within the Dutch colony of New Netherland ...

Evarts on the part of the people of New-York, replying to the arguments of ... The whole question of the case, then, is, does the relation of slave-owner and slave which subsisted in Virginia ...

In the spring of 1860, Harriet Tubman was requested by Mr. Gerrit Smith to go to Boston to attend a large Anti-Slavery meeting ... Bradford New York, For the Author by G.R. Lockwood & Son ...

Months before the publication of his book on the Jewish role in Holland’s slave trade, Orthodox Rabbi Lody van de Kamp issued a scathing critique of the Dutch tradition of dressing as Black Pete ...

Expect to see archival documents, rare personal accounts from enslaved Brooklynites and artwork that helps visitors visualize this period in Brooklyn's development. The exhibit also delves into ...

OPRHP’s Black History webpage has been significantly updated with an interactive map highlighting parks and sites tied to New York’s history of slavery and liberation. The page also features stories ...

New York City is renowned as a global center of finance, commerce and culture, but its role in slavery is far lesser known.   Although the slave trade is typically associated […] ...

Photo: Wikimedia Commons At its height in the 1770s, slavery generated over 10% of the gross domestic product of Holland, the richest of the seven Dutch provinces which made up the republic, according ...

February 9, 2022 The Dutch central bank at the time of the slave trade. Photo: A Bakker via Wikimedid Commons The Dutch central bank at the time of the slave trade. Photo: A Bakker via Wikimedid ...