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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"By the early 18th century, New York City had one of the largest slave populations of any of the settlements in the Thirteen Colonies. Slaves worked as domestic servants, artisans, dock workers, and various skilled laborers, as opposed to the South where slaves were primarily agricultural labororers. Slaves lived near each other, making communication easy. They also often worked among free black people, a situation that did not exist on most Southern plantations."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%5FYork%5FSlave%5FRevolt%5Fof%5F1712