A law for regulating Negroes and slaves in the night time

Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

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Collection Data

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1731
Place: [New York]
Publisher: [William Bradford]
Library locations
Rare Book Division
Shelf locator: *KVB (1731, Apr.22) (New York (City). Law for regulating Negroes and slaves in the night time)
Topics
Slavery -- New York (State) -- New York
Ordinances, Municipal
Genres
Broadsides
Notes
Content: "Dated at the City-Hall this two and twentieth day of April, in the fourth year of His Majesty's reign, annoq; Domini 1731. By order of the Common council, Will. Sharpas,cl."
Content: At head of title: City of New-York, ss.
Physical Description
Extent: Broadside. 29 x 19 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14686427
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5833e660-0033-0130-603d-58d385a7bc34
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