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2027 New York History Conference Call for Session Proposals2027 Theme: Enslavement, Abolition, and Freedom in New York: 1627-1827-2027Conference Date/Location: Thursday June 24-Friday June 25, 2027, at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.Proposal Deadline: January 15, 2027.For 200 years, New York was both a slave colony and a slave state, and for generations it had the largest enslaved population of any northern state. The end of legal slavery in 1827 was an…
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