Lower Manhattan Slavery in New York Walking Tour 2009, Part 1

from the event description: Lower Manhattan Slavery in New York Walking Tour 2009. At each site along the tour route, students from Law, Government, and Community Service High School will be performing and presenting historical information. Classes are encouraged to make posters and banners about slavery in New York to carry and display along the tour route.
• Distributed by African American History and United States History students from Law, Government and Community Service Magnet High School, Cambria Heights, Queens.
• Based on the New York and Slavery: Complicity and Resistance curriculum guide (http://www.nyscss.org).
• Other than at the colonial era African American Burial Ground, which was uncovered during excavations for a federal office building in 1991, these sites, and slavery in New York in general, have been erased from historical memory. There is not even an historical marker at the South Street Seaport in the financial district of Manhattan where enslaved Africans were traded in the 17th century and were illegal slaving expeditions were planned and financed up until the time of the American Civil War.
• For more information, contact Dr. Alan Singer, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Hofstra University, at
516-463-5853 or catajs@hofstra.edu or Michael Pezone at zenmap@aol.com.

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[soymiguelalejandro23]

Great message these young people have however it is sad that there was no funding provided for a public address system of some sort. Hmm...I can barely hear them on this clip so I am sure that many of the people that were there could not hear them as well. I also wished that they could have talked vs rapping their message so people of all generations could more easily followed their speaking.

[Kelz06081984]

Hi guys. I am Jamaican living in Toronto,Canada.

Please do a tour every year!!! Please get this message across!!

[gerowen]

I never knew slavery existed in New York, wikipedia here I come.

[KAT4rmSHADES]

Hey this is Kristina thanx once again for helping us promote slavery and new york