Slavery on Long Island
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Slavery on Long Island
Black History on Long Island - The Long Island Studies Institute at Hofstra Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States Grave site exposes brutality of slavery in early New York - BY BRIAN WILLIAMS March 13, 2000 Slavery's Fellow Travelers - (The New York Times) posted by Jesse jackson Jr. Jupiter Hammon - poet Born: 1711 Oyster Bay, New York Died 1806 - The first known African American to publish literature, Hammon was a lifelong slave of the Lloyd family on Long Island. He was a favorite servant who was a clerk in the family business, a farmhand, and an artisan. Hammon was allowed to attend school and was a fervent Christian, as were the Lloyds. His first published poem was written on Christmas Day, 1760. An Evening Thought. Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries: Composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr. Lloyd of Queen's Village, on Long Island, the 25th of December, 1760 appeared as a broadside in 1761. Three other poems and three sermon essays followed. In 1786 Hammon gave a speech, An Address to the Negroes of New York, to the African Society, in which he said that while he personally had no wish to be free, he did wish others, especially “the young Negroes, were free.” Henry Highland Garnet - 1815-1882 Henry Highland Garnet was born into slavery near New Market, Kent County, Maryland, on December 23, 1815. His father, George Trusty, was the son of a Mandingo warrior prince, taken prisoner in combat. He was bound out to Epenetus Smith of Smithtown, Long Island, as a farm worker. The Westbury Quakers - The Queens Freedom Trail A History of African Americans on Long Island Antiquities of Long Island - (Link to appropriate Page) (Link to Contents page) Publisher: J. W. Bouton Publication Date: 1874 Author: Gabriel Furman and Frank Moore Long Island, Our Story , Newsday
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