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Mapping Early New York | Encyclopedia

Where we explore the early history of New Amsterdam and New York City, its diverse people, landscapes, institutions and global legacy today.

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Simon
Congo
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Male
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Slave - Enslaved person - DWIC
Half-Free Half-Enslaved (Half Citizens) - Freed Status
Affiliation - Congo or Kingdom of Kongo
Affiliation - African - African Descent
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One of the first slaves to arrive in Manhattan in 1626. 
One of eleven slaves who were emancipated on February 25, 1644.

New York, New Amsterdam by Martine Gosselink

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Mapping Early New York is made possible by support from the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, the First Families of New York, the Ken Chase Foundation, the Netherland-America Foundation, the Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,  Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, and donors like you.  

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