{"id":308574,"date":"2025-11-21T11:43:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/mr-george-rex-the-last-slave-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:43:56","slug":"mr-george-rex-the-last-slave-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=308574","title":{"rendered":"Mr. George Rex, \u201cThe Last Slave\u201d \u2014 NYC Department of Records &#038; Information Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Recently, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) asked the Municipal Archives to participate in a panel discussion <em>The Birth of Identity: Race, Racism, and Personhood in New York City Health Records. <\/em>Organized by Dr. Michelle Morse, Acting Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the DOHMH, the panelists explored the importance of birth certificates and how they record essential facts about a person\u2019s identity. The panel also addressed how race data on birth records informs DOHMH work in pre-natal, maternal wellness, and health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Dr. Morse extended the invitation when she learned about the Archives collection of records that document the births of enslaved children. They consist of more than 1,300 entries in local government records throughout the five Boroughs of New York City. These records had been created in response to the 1799 Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in New York State. The Law stated that children born to enslaved women after July 4, 1799, would be legally freed after 25 years for women, and 28 years for men. In most instances, enslavers reported births of the children in recorded statements before Town clerks or other officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">To prepare for the panel discussion, City archivists considered whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Historical Vital Records<\/span><\/a> (HVR) and related vital record ledger collections could potentially augment information about the enslaved children documented in the manumission records. Although vital records for the towns and villages in Brooklyn and Queens, where most of the manumissions took place, only date back to the early 1880s, research in the series is now significantly easier thanks to a completed digitization and indexing project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) asked the Municipal Archives to participate in a panel discussion The Birth of Identity: Race, Racism, and Personhood in New York City Health Records. 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