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Tag: The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909

North America’s First Freed Black Settlement Right in our Neighborhood

In continuing our celebration of black history, we have a new and exciting entry to our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map: North America’s First Freed Black Settlement.  According to historian Christopher Moore, the first legally emancipated community of people of African descent in North America was found in Lower Manhattan, comprising much of present-day […]