• Slaves of New York is a 1989 American comedy-drama Merchant Ivory Productions film. Directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, it stars Bernadette...
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  • "New Slaves" is a song by American rapper Kanye West from his sixth studio album, Yeezus (2013). The song features additional vocals from Frank Ocean....
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  • slave suffers corporal punishment. Banning the testimony of slaves, except against other slaves. Olson, Edwin (1944). "The Slave Code in Colonial New...
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  • "Slaves of New York" is a collection of short stories by Tama Janowitz. Its premise is that finding an apartment in Manhattan is so expensive and hard...
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    The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 was an uprising in New York City, in the Province of New York, of 23 Black slaves. They killed nine whites and injured...
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    Conspiracy of 1741, also known as the Slave Insurrection of 1741, was a purported plot by slaves and poor whites in the British colony of New York in 1741...
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    New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the...
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    New York State began emancipating slaves in 1799, and in 1841, all slaves in New York State were freed, and many of New York's emancipated slaves lived...
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    state with no slaves was Vermont. In the 1840 census, there were still slaves in New Hampshire (1), Rhode Island (5), Connecticut (17), New York (4), Pennsylvania...
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    alleged fugitive slaves the right of a jury trial in New York to establish whether they were slaves, and another pledged the aid of the state to recover...
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  • Tama Janowitz (category Columbia University School of the Arts alumni)
    referenced as one of the main "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. Her novel-in-stories Slaves of New York (1986) was adapted...
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  • the Morning See No Evil, Hear No Evil She-Devil Sidewalk Stories Slaves of New York Snake Eater The Toxic Avenger Part II True Believer The Unbelievable...
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    A slave rebellion is an armed uprising by slaves, as a way of fighting for their freedom. Rebellions of slaves have occurred in nearly all societies that...
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    of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by geographical area in the U.S. state of New...
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    with African slaves and their future offspring being legally the property of their owners, as children born to slave mothers were also slaves (partus sequitur...
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  • Brat Pack (literary) (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from May 2017)
    second-person singular. Janowitz's Slaves of New York explored themes of sexual politics against a backdrop of New York's peculiarities rendered honestly...
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    other slaves. They also bought slaves that came from privateers of Spanish slave ships. For instance, La Garce a French privateer, arrived in New Amsterdam...
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  • community. The New-York Manumission Society was founded in 1785, under the full name "The New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting...
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    enslaved: deprived of personal freedom and forced to perform labor or services without compensation. These people are referred to as slaves, or as enslaved...
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  • Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan...
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    following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical...
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    different societies: there were court slaves, slaves incorporated into princely armies, domestic and household slaves, slaves working on the land, in industry...
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    Mexico is a town in the northeastern section of Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 5,197 at the 2010 census. The town contains...
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    lifted by Congress in 20 years, and slaves were referred to as "Persons." The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves passed easily in 1807 and took effect...
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    used to detain recaptured slaves, directing county prosecutors to defend recaptured slaves, and entitling recaptured slaves to habeas corpus and trial...
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    life. Of these presidents who owned slaves, Thomas Jefferson owned the most over his lifetime, with 600+ slaves, followed closely by Washington. Woodrow...
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    Slavery (redirect from Slaves)
    servitude List of slaves List of slave owners Mukataba Slave rebellion Slave-owning slaves Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery Wilberforce...
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    lack of birth documentation for most enslaved individuals. List of slaves Peter Fossett – Former slave (1815–1901), said to be the last survivor of enslavement...
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    in New York. Caesar was supposedly born in 1737, on the property of Rensselaer Nicoll, who owned the Bethlehem House property in Bethlehem, New York. Within...
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    source of white slaves to the Islamic Middle East, and these slaves were referred to as "Circassians". In the context of the Circassian slave trade, the...
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