This is part three (final) of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. Sorry, it was delayed, but Black History need not be...

This is part three (final) of the 2019 Black History Month series on two important sites- the African Burial Grounds in NYC and a tiny island called St. Helena. Sorry, it was delayed, but Black History need not be confined to a single month anyway.   The northern regions of the United States were long viewed and talked about as the cradle of hope and freedom for Africans in America who had been enslaved in the South. The North versus the South. The North is often written about as this place where education, philosophy, and moral goodness prevailed. While the South was full of hypocritical religious zealots, witless, cruel, racist, and sexist bigots. This wasn’t completely true. While northern states are often home to more liberal, progressive, outspoken cities, it wouldn’t take much digging to uncover northern bigotry. In the cities of the North, slavery, and slavery- driven profits thrived. Part of this may have to do with how slavery existed and then changed as the Dutch began losing power to the British, but that is a subject for a different day/ post. That said, as a child raised in New York City, I rarely heard about slavery in the [...]

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