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A Far Cry From Freedom: Gradual Abolition (1799-1827): New York State’s Crime Against Humanity

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The comparison of degrees of enslavement, that is whether the institutional subjugation of one race of people by another is kind of severe in one country or another or one region of a country or another, is not the designed purpose of this book. For the life-style of the Africans and their descendants enslaved in New York State prior to the mid-nineteenth century can best be described as analogous in its character and intensity to that of their counterparts in the southern states. Actually, the have an effect on of enslavement on these Africans – who were ripped from their traditional homelands and brutally enslaved for centuries in the “New World”- their families and descendants was and is virtually the same regardless of disposition – North or South. Enslavement in the northern extremes of the US and, in particular New York State, cannot and must not be excluded from the present day debate on restitution, apologies and reparations. The only truth to be discussed is that the enslavement of human beings, against their will and with the ultimate goal of profit for their enslavers, is a “crime against all humanity”.— L. Lloyd Stewart This can be a work that deserves to be read, not only as a result of the quality and amount of research and thought that went into it, but also as a result of what it reveals about the history of the state of New York and this country. It also points to their want to come to terms with the immoral, evil and unjust acts committed in the name of race, religion and the “right” to conquest. Brother Lloyd Stewart draws a clear line between his work and many recent works on enslavement which attempt to tone down and sanitize the horror, criminality and human tragedy of African enslavement. Indeed, he is especially concerned with stripping away New York’s unofficial masking of the horror of its policies and its pretension of a benevolence unimaginable in any such violent, degrading and dehumanizing process. As the title suggests, Brother Lloyd is very

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