Laws Affecting Blacks in Manhattan

Laws Affecting Blacks in Manhattan

Laws oppressing black people in pre-Civil War America.

A list of laws relating to black people that were written in Manhattan from early colonization by the Dutch and British to the founding of the United States and pre-Civil War era.

Slavery In New York

Thelma Wills Foote, Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2004); Leslie M. Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
http://www.raims.com/education/abolition.html; accessed 4/25/05.
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Alan_J_Singer/slaverycurriculum/colonialny/documents.html; accessed 6/8/05.
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/Alan_J_Singer/slaverycurriculum/newnation/documents.html; accessed 6/8/05.

New York Historical Society

The Dutch Colonization period to the pre-Civil War United States period (1640-1821).

Education programs at The New-York Historical Society are made possible by the generosity of Bank of America, Citigroup, The Educational Foundation of America , JP Morgan Chase, The Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund, Inc., Morgan Stanley Foundation, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., The New York Community Trust, New York Life Foundation , Washington Mutual, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

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Pre-Civil War American Race Relations

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