Description: This Brooklyn Daily Eagle article recounting the history of slavery in Long Island demonstrates that many nineteenth century writers romanticized the practice of slavery in the colonial North, and employed strikingly racist language to describe African Americans.
Format: clipping
Citation: "The Old Long Island Negro," clipping from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, circa 1890s; Lefferts family papers, ARC.145; box 5, folder 40; Brooklyn Historical Society.
