Town historian writes about Augusta, refitted in Greenport for the slave trade
Town historian writes about Augusta, refitted in Greenport for the slave trade Southold Town Historian Amy Folk in 2017. (File photo) As Amy Folk writes in a new essay, “involvement in slavery did not end in the northeastern United States when the importation of slaves from abroad was banned by the U.S. in 1807. Nor did it end when New York State ended enslavement of people in 1827.” Nor did it end on eastern Long Island. Ms. Folk, the Southold Town historian and a member of a research group investigating the institution of slavery on the North fork, ...
Source: timesreview.com