Shedding light on slavery in the north (CNN/AP)

[eppur_se_muova]

Educators want more public school students to know

Friday, March 17, 2006; Posted: 10:41 a.m. EST (15:41 GMT)
OYSTER BAY, New York (AP) --
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"Did anybody in this room know there were 60 enslaved Africans, people, human beings, buried a mile from here?" Alan Singer, a professor at Hofstra University, asked them. "Those people have been erased from history. It is as if they never existed."
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Singer, who is a social studies education professor, uses 18th and 19th century newspaper ads from slave owners seeking help in capturing their runaway slaves on Long Island, as well as diaries and other publications to document the slave trade in New York.
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Most Americans do not know the story of slavery in the North, said Jill Lepore, a professor of history at Harvard University and author of "New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan."
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Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, but when the American Revolution began in 1776, the only city with more slaves than New York was Charleston, South Carolina.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/03/17/teaching.slavery.ap/index.html

[Sammy Pepys]

1. The North was also...

...the hub of the slave trade for a long time as well. Most slaves up north were house servants in urban areas.

[pocket]

2. OMG what a dork!

nobody is going to listen to him until he gets rid of that outfit.