Past Exhibits October 2003 to Present

Slavery in New York: Brooklyn Stories

Exhibit Dates: February 15, 2007 - June 3, 2007

The Brooklyn Historical Society and the Weeksville Heritage Center were pleased to present Slavery in New York Poster Exhibition, based on the New York Historical Society's landmark Slavery in New York on view at BHS starting February 15th .

John Jea was born in 1773 in southern Nigeria. As a child, he was captured, shipped to America, and sold to the Terhune family of Flatbush.
Collection of The Brooklyn Historical Society

This graphic exhibition re-tells the story first presented in 2005 at the New York Historical Society, explores the themes of: Dutch New Amsterdam, commercial and economic implications of enslavement, work of the enslaved, the American Revolution, and ultimately the organizing of African New Yorkers in search of community faith and freedom.

Brooklyn 's complex relationship to the history of enslaved people will be the focus of programs planned in conjunction with N-YHS.

Slavery in New York : Brooklyn Stories was made possible by The Independence Community Foundation.

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