Want to do your own research on people born into slavery in Brooklyn? The Brooklyn Public Library can help:
these are the lists of slave births in Flatbush. They begin with the names of all slaveholders in Flatbush, and with the numbers of slaves owned--page after page with a businesslike formality that masks the human impact of the events.
For more see Slave births 1799-1801
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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