Uptown’s Forgotten Slave Cemetery

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Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827. Prior to that, the Dyckmans, Nagles, and other Uptown families, made use of enslaved labor.

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  1. I wonder why my teachers at PS 98– 1940-1946; never mentioned this. My apartment house was on 211th.. i My family lived there until the 70s.

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