When you think of slavery in America, you probably picked your plantations in the South. But in the seventeen hundreds, New York City, under British rule, was a slave city. By seventeen O three over forty two percent of households in N. Y. C. Owned enslaved people. That made it second only to Charleston. These weren't just servants. Enslaved Africans built the doc walks the streets, even Wall Street, named after a barrier they helped construct. The British enforced harsh laws, no gatherings over three people, no owning property, no freedom. In Seventeen, twelve, twenty three enslaved Africans revolted, killing nine colonists. The British response brutal, twenty one were executed, some burned alive than in seventeen. Forty one paranoia gripped the city. Fires broke out. The British claimed another slave conspiracy is. Seventeen were hanged, thirteen burned, over seventy, deported. It was likely a moral panic, but the fear kept slavery locked in place. British merchants funded at all ships from Bristol and Liverpool broadcast actives. Empire cashed in while Africans paid with their lives. New York streets were paved with Slavery is well built by empire hidden in plain sight. Follow for more hidden truths behind royal power and empire. Share, believe, inspire blacks, be.