Venture Smith’s Autobiography and Runaway Ad: Enslavement in Early New York

--Alan J. Singer
Students compare primary sources (included as handouts) to validate historical information. The ad is from the "New York Gazette," April 1, 1754, published in the slave-holding colony of New York.

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