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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:
In early February, Mayor Adams announced that February 10, 2023 would mark the end of New York City's vaccine mandate for city workers, due to 96 percent of city workers having received their primary COVID-19 vaccination series.
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Jan 17, 2019 · Despite that disappointing reality, New York State vital record indexes - birth, marriage, and death records each have their own index - all begin in 1880 or 1881. See our Guide to Finding New York Birth, Marriage, and Death Records for details on where to access these indexes.
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.
A Home to Commerce. By 1830, commercial activity in Lower Manhattan had exploded, and the narrow lanes of the old Dutch village were transformed with astonishing speed into the first district in...
With infrastructure projects like the grid plan and the Eire Canal being undertaken in the first half of the 19th century, and Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge in the second half of the century, the city need workers to continue its seemingly exponential growth. Becoming Irish-American (1790-1880)
New York City - Urban Expansion, Diversity, Culture: Despite the loss of the national government, New York’s population skyrocketed in 1781–1800, and it became America’s largest city. Once again trade grew rapidly, and not even the War of 1812 hindered development; an auction system for surplus British merchandise dumped in New York ...
