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By Ned Benton. To date slavery in New York, it is common to start in the mid 1620s and end in the late 1820s. Our records begin earlier and end later, because we consider enslavement as a functional status enabled and practiced in a range of ways. The functional status of enslavement involves degrees of the following:
This 1785 bill portrays the sale of an enslaved woman named Maria from Jacob Van Wagenan to John Jones as an ordinary legal transaction. In 1799, Governor John Jay signed an act to gradually end slavery in the state, but full emancipation did not occur in New York until 1827.
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Jun 7, 2017 · It was not until March 31, 1817 that the New York legislature ended two centuries of slavery within its borders, setting July 4, 1827 as the date of final emancipation and making New York the first state to pass a law for the total abolition of legal slavery.
The first, confirmed, case of COVID-19 was in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [1] [2] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia.
- White Supremacy and Multiculturalism
- Expansion Necessitates Immigrants
- Becoming Irish-American
- Becoming Chinese-American
- Becoming Italian-American
- Becoming Jewish-American
- Becoming Cuban-American
- Becoming Puerto Rican-American
This episode explores the foundations of multiculturalism and white supremacy in New Amsterdam-later New York City-from the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609 to the eve of the America Revolution. It traces the city’s development as it leaned on the slave trade and a process of native removal to expand and grow. It also highlights the Dutch influence ...
The need to build the nation and rebuild NYC after the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) necessitates immigration to New York City. Episode 2 documents how, between the end of the 18th Century and the start of the 19th Century, NYC is increasingly becoming the most important city in the U.S., further amplifying the need for immigrant labor. A 1776 fire...
This episode exposes viewers to the waves of Irish immigration to NYC before focusing on how the Irish were able to overcome anti-immigrant sentiment to consolidate political and economic influence in the city. It begins with the early, more privileged Irish immigrants-Often Protestants-who arrived in the 17th and 18th century. In many cases Irish ...
This episode begins by exploring the reason why Chinese immigrants sought to leave China and come to the United States. It then documents Chinese perseverance overcoming the obstacles of structural racism to form a flourishing community in New York City. Taking viewers on a journey from China to California and then to New York this story is one of ...
This episode details the emergence of the Italian-American community in NYC. After exploring the motivations for leaving Italy, largely economic and political desperation, this episode dives into the xenophobia faced by Southern Italians arriving in the U.S. between 1880 and 1924. It traces how the Italian immigration pattern was unique due to the ...
This episode reveals the development of the Jewish-American community in New York City from the colonial period to the present day. Focusing on the largest wave of Jewish immigrants that arrived between 1880 and 1924, this episode explores the reasons they came to the United States, the ways in which Jews assimilated into the United States and how ...
This episode recounts the two century long history of exchange between Cuba and New York City. It dives deeply into Cuban history to explain why the relationship between the island and NYC developed and how political circumstance on the island, and policy decisions in Washington were continuous evolving the commitments and character of the Cuban im...
This episode explores the intimate history Puerto Rico and the mainland US that led to a significant community of Puerto Ricans developing in NYC. Beginning during the Spanish Colonial period this video traces the revolutionary organizing of Puerto Ricans in exile in 19th Century New York City. Yet the episode is centered in after the Spanish-Ameri...
The first individual to be executed in the electric chair was William Kemmler, on August 6, 1890. Current was passed through Kemmler for 17 seconds and he was declared dead, but witnesses noticed he was still breathing, and the current was turned back on. From start to finish, the execution took eight minutes.
In 2002, there were 97,296 "stop-and-frisk" stops made by New York police officers; 82.4% resulted in no fines or convictions. The number of stops increased dramatically in 2008 to over half a million, 88% of which did not result in any fine or conviction, peaking in 2011 to 685,724 stops, again with 88% (603,437) resulting in no conviction.
