1. Schomburg Researcher Christopher Paul Moore will present “Wampum to Wall Street: Street Impact 1609-2012” at Should the Arts Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way on Friday, May 4 at 7 p.m.“Repairing America” through art, signage, walking tours and memorialization is the theme of historian and preservationist Christopher Paul Moore’s powerpoint presentation, and discussion of historic global investment, impacts, influences, and impressions. His presentation also includes Manhattan’s Native American “Pearl Street,” Wall Street Slave Market, and African Burial Grounds.The free event will take place at the CUE Art Foundation Gallery at 511 West 25th Street. For  more information and to register, please visit: http://cueartfoundation.org/occupy-wall-street.html

    Schomburg Researcher Christopher Paul Moore will present “Wampum to Wall Street: Street Impact 1609-2012” at Should the Arts Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way on Friday, May 4 at 7 p.m.

    “Repairing America” through art, signage, walking tours and memorialization is the theme of historian and preservationist Christopher Paul Moore’s powerpoint presentation, and discussion of historic global investment, impacts, influences, and impressions. His presentation also includes Manhattan’s Native American “Pearl Street,” Wall Street Slave Market, and African Burial Grounds.

    The free event will take place at the CUE Art Foundation Gallery at 511 West 25th Street. For  more information and to register, please visit: http://cueartfoundation.org/occupy-wall-street.html

  2. Harlem’s Buried Treasure

    The depot, where the Willis Avenue Bridge meets First Avenue, marks the end point of Dutch Gov. Peter Stuyvesant’s “road to New Harlem,” a 10-mile trail from lower Manhattan constructed in 1658 by enslaved African workers. Beneath the depot’s block-long concrete floor, according to historians and archaeologists, is where those slaves are still buried.

    In lower Manhattan, a colonial village called New Amsterdam was established in 1625. Multinational from its inception, merchants and traders, primarily from Holland but also from England, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany and Scandinavia, built a center for trade and commerce, while the African slaves of the Dutch West India Company labored to expand the colony to the island’s northern regions.

    Throughout the Americas — from Albany to Argentina — the successful colony building strategy was the same: Deploy slaves to clear land for plantations, towns and roads, and entire families would migrate to the New World.

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