A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890; Combined with the History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War Also a (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER III. THE NEW YORK COLONY. The enslavement of the Negro seems to have commenced in the New York Colony about the same time as at Jamestown (1619). The slaves were used on the farms, and became so profitable that about the time the English took the colony from the Dutch, 1664, there was a great demand for slaves, and the trade grew accordingly. The Privileges of the Slaves in New York were, for a while, a little better than in Virginia. They were taken into the church and baptized, and no law was passed to prevent their getting an education. But the famous Wall Street, now the financial centre of the New World, was once the scene of an auction block where Indians and persons of Negro descent were bought and sold. A whipping boss was once a characteristic officer in New York city. The Riot of 1712 shows the feeling between the master and servant at that time. The Negro population being excluded from schools, not allowed to 6wn land, even when free, and forbidden to " strikea Christian or Jew " in self-defence, and their testimony excluded from the courts, arose in arms and with the torch; houses were burned, and many whites killed, before the militia suppressed them. Many of the Negroes of New York were free, and many came from the Spanish provinces. Section 4CHAPTER IV. MASSACHUSETTS, RHODE ISLAND, AND CONNECTICUT. Negro slavery existed in Massachusetts as early as 1633. The Puritan fathers who came to this country in search of liberty, carried on for more than a century a traffic in human flesh and blood. The New England ships of the i;th century brought cargoes of Negroes from the west coast of Africa and the Barbados. They sold many of them in New England as well as in the Southern colonies. In 1764 there were nearly 6000 slaves in Massachusetts, about 4000 in Rhode Isla...