That's Teddy Roosevelt on horseback with an Indian and Negro slave along either side the steed.
Posted on 04/16/2015 10:18:05 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
The New York City Council has approved a monument recognising the contributions of slaves to the city's founding and economy.
The marker will be placed in the Wall Street area, about a block from where the city's first slave market stood.
When the council approved the market in 1711, almost 1,000 of the city's 6,400 people were black, according to Columbia University.
The monument is expected to be unveiled on 19 June, officials told local media.
The new marker will join 38 other markers - mostly commemorating success in the financial and construction industries - in lower Manhattan, WNYC reported.
Officials told the local radio station that the sign memorialising the contributions of slaves is undergoing final preparations.
The officials said it likely will be revealed on 19 June, a day known as "Juneteenth", which marks the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the confederate south.
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From the headline I thought it was a monument to New York taxpayers.
It’s a monument to make us remember the past 7 years.
Would this be the same n.y. city council who, in the years following the civil war, were very concerned that recently freed blacks migrating north would take union jobs and were to be apprehended and disposed of?
That's Teddy Roosevelt on horseback with an Indian and Negro slave along either side the steed.
Interesting that the article discussed NY action of 1711, while somehow managing to miss the story from next year, the slave revolt. 20 slaves were burned alive by judicial order.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Slave_Revolt_of_1712
A good percentage of the slaves of 1711 were White Europeans (”indentured servants”).
What about the slaves murdered by racist New Yorkers in the Civil War riots? What about a monument to them. Blacks were better off in Richmond than New York in the Civil War.
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