The
Hidden History of New York:
A
Guide for Back Folks
By:
Dr.
Tingba Apidta
Introduction:
In 1991 workers in
lower Manhattan uncovered 415 graves with as many as 20,00 of the forgotten
Black builders of the "greatest city of the world." Discarded as
rubbish in the ash can of New York history, the decayed bones of these tormented
Black pioneers told a chilling tale. Stacked five deep thy told of starvation
deaths, chronic infections and unspeakable suffering. Muscles had been ripped
from bone, necks had been broken and spines jammed into skulls-all injuries form
lives "cursed" with carrying heavy loads. If they had not perished in
infancy, they had lived just long enough to be worked to death.
Since
the settlement of New Netherland (later named New York) Blacks have been well
represented, though never welcomed, throughout the history of "The Big
Apple." It is mythology to suggest that slavery and all its attendant
atrocities did not reach the Empire State. The enslavement of "Black
Africans" and "Red Indians", as in the rest of the "New
World", was welcomed and even demanded by New York's European settlers.
Consider this Hidden History of New York:
*
Henry Hudson brutally murdered "Indians" after feasting and trading
with them, beginning the "Red" Holocaust of New York.
*
New York became the center of the "slave" trade and its bankers backed
the growth of the plantation South.
*
As many Americans were murdered in Manhattan in the anti-"Black" Draft
Riots of 1863 as were killed in the War of 1812.
*
At one time New York had a larger population of "African slaves" than
did Maryland or Virginia.
This
story of pure race hatred has masqueraded as a romantic chapter of "New
World" settlement. It is every bit as genocidal as the accounts of the Nazi
regime of a future century. New York's hidden history is here laid bare for all
to see.
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obtain a copy of this must-read book, please contact:
The Reclamation
Project
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