New York State’s parks agency is marking the lead-up to the bicentennial of slavery’s abolition in the state with a multiyear initiative to document early Black history, the agency said. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced on February 6 that it had launched Enslavement to Freedom: 1627-1827-2027, a program built around the span between the first documented enslaved Africans in early New York around 1627, the 1827 abolition of slavery in New York State, and the bicentennial of that emancipation in 2027.
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