New Harlem Village & Church
The beginnings of church life in Harlem
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Category: Harlem Retrospectives
Harlem and the Dutch debate over slavery in New Amsterdam
The anti-slavery theologians often referred to slavery as “theft of humans” and a violation of the eighth of the Ten Commandments. But the slavocrats gained more elite supporters than did the theologians of freedom.
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Re: Post – #election2020 “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving”
After the Civil War, Nast foresaw America in his “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving” (1869) as the place where everybody had a place at the table.
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON & HARLEM FAITH AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
After the War of Revolution in 1776, a battle-tested cohort of African American and White faith-based leaders developed an ardor for extending freedom.
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Peter Stuyvesant’s relentless quest for order in New Amsterdam pushes Africans out of the church
The slavocrats won and the baptism of slaves ceased. For the first time, commercial values in Manhattan trumped faith and moral values.
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African American faith and freedom in pre-colonial Harlem
At the very beginning of Harlem’s life Africans were creating an African American identity rooted in faith and freedom.
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Revisiting the Streets of Jewish Harlem
Harlem was the third largest Jewish community in the world, second only to the Lower East Side and Warsaw.
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