The Black Woman Artist who Posed Nude at Former WALL ST Slave Trading Sites!

Tonight @ 8pm Join Artisan, Nona Faustine, The Black Woman Artist who Posed Nude at Former New York City Slave Trading Sites, Including Wall Street!  bit.ly/WallSt_AuctionBlock   www.blackhistoryblog.com www.blackhistoryUniversity.com

When the slave trade ships arrived in the Caribbean with their sick, abused and stolen cargo of Africans, the merchant slavers, nicknamed ‘Scramblers’ would be the first to board. They would scramble aboard to get the first look at and the first pick of the most healthy and good looking of the captive Africans. Then they would separate them out from the rest and move them to a corner of the deck to keep them apart. They ‘cornered the market’. Please try to be mindful of this expression, don’t use it and let others know where it comes from.

 Slavery “[White and Black Indentured (Temporary enslavement)] was introduced to Manhattan (then New Amsterdam) in 1626 and, for two centuries, remained a significant part of New York life. In 1711 when chattel slavery (permanent enslavement) was introduced , the New York City Common Council declared Wall Street the city’s first official slave market on December 13, 1711.   It was deemed a space where human beings could be enslaved for the day or for the week. The slave market took the shape of a wooden structure with open sides, and held approximately 50 people at a time. It operated as such, on the corner of Wall Street and Pearl Street in the heart of the Financial District, until 1762. Slavery was legally abolished in New York in 1827.”