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Singer, who is a social studies education professor, uses 18th and 19th century newspaper ads from slave owners seeking help in capturing their runaway slaves on Long Island, as well as diaries and other publications to document the slave trade in New York.

He cited an 1877 passage from the diary of Harris Underhill, reporting on a visit to the family homestead near Oyster Bay: "On this farm are buried sixty slaves which once belonged to the Underhills."

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>>>He cited an 1877 passage from the diary of Harris Underhill, reporting on a visit to the family homestead near Oyster Bay: "On this farm are buried sixty slaves which once belonged to the Underhills."

The diary entry is from an 1877 visit to the family homestead. It does not indicate when the sixty slaves were buried or if they were the property of the Underhills at the time of their death. Since the article notes that slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, I assume they were buried there many years ealier or perhaps more recently as free men.