{"id":7056932,"date":"2026-09-04T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/juneteenth-nyc-department-of-records-information-services\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:00:33","slug":"juneteenth-nyc-department-of-records-information-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7056932","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth \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;\">For 200 years, from 1627 (when the Dutch West India Company warship <em>Bruynvisch<\/em> arrived in Manhattan carrying 22 enslaved Africans), until 1827, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.nyc\/slavery-records\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">slavery was very much a fact of life in New York<\/span><\/a>. By the 1790s, New York City\u2019s population of enslaved people was second only to Charleston, South Carolina. New York had the largest number of enslaved people of any state in the North and was the second-to-last to abolish slavery (New Jersey was the last state). Even after 1827, when slavery ended in New York, free Blacks were not safe on its streets. Runaways from the south and even free Black New Yorkers could be kidnapped by marshals and sent to a slave state using the Fugitive Slave Clause as cover.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Not only do Municipal Archives records document this dark history, the Hall of Records (now the Surrogate\u2019s Courthouse and DORIS headquarters) was built on the edge of what was the African Burial Ground. After rediscovery of the Burial Ground in 1991 during construction of a new federal office building, New York City\u2019s Percent for Art program commissioned artist Lorenzo Pace\u2019s monument \u201cTriumph of the Human Spirit\u201d in Foley Square. The Mayor\u2019s Office of Communications recently interviewed Pace about the project in this short film that includes references to the Municipal Archives\u2019 records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 200 years, from 1627 (when the Dutch West India Company warship Bruynvisch arrived in Manhattan carrying 22 enslaved Africans), until 1827, slavery was very much a fact of life in New York. By the 1790s, New York City\u2019s population of enslaved people was second only to Charleston, South Carolina. 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