Even In Progressive States Like New York, And Even Today, Slavery Is Stylish

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There is a narrative about New York that seems to tell the story of a progressive state, a state that began ending slavery in 1817, concluding the process on July 5th, 1827, the first full day of slavery’s complete outlawing in New York, a free state, a North Star state. They rarely tell you it was the second to last Northern state to outlaw slavery, followed only by New Jersey. 

Rather, we may learn that New York is the state in which Harriet Tubman would live out her final years...