Census showing residents of Yonkers By Dennis Richmond Jr. A conversation about slavery is never easy. It is an open wound, a ...

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 ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York is considering paying reparations to the descendants of slaves under new plans approved by the City Council. The ...

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 ...

The New York State Office of General Services will host a series of free events and exhibits at the Empire State Plaza in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Duke University Press have just published a new volume on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by the Clark Art Institute ...