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1600s

1600s                        1700s                        1800s                        1900s

The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History spans four centuries,
consisting of well over 5,000 individual pieces -- defying description
both in scope and content (see reviews). Here are a few of the highlights...

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1667 MANHATTAN LAND GRANT -- Richard Nicolls, first Governor of New York,
affirms and grants the assignment of a 1644 land parcel in Manhattan held by
Groote (Big) Manuel, a free Negro -- One of the first eleven Blacks in New York.
 

This 1667 Document Featured on TV Show : History Detectives (PBS)
Week of September 12th-20th -- View Transcript [Click Here]

 


 EARLY MAP OF AFRICA -- by Dutch Cartographer Willem Blaeu, c. 1640

 


THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY -- Early antiquarian newspaper (1674)
report about the Company's fight for its Slave Trade monopoly.

 

 

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