In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well, and the abolitionists fighting for freedom.
We often think of slavery as a southern phenomenon, far removed from the booming cities of the North.
But even though slavery had been outlawed in Gotham by the 1830s, Black New Yorkers were not safe.
Not only was the city built on the backs of slaves; it was essential in keeping slave.
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