A city that has been plagued with undercover sex trafficking is New York City. ... New York City's JFK airport has been named one of the top five airports in the country to where sex victims from other countries arrive. ... Some of these external parties are New York City cab drivers who are unfortunately infamous for being involved in helping with the crime. ... Several New York City cab drivers were also arrested in relation to this particular ring. ... While New York City battles the issue of human sex trafficking through its legislatures, outside organizations have been developed to a...

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In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... The man who built this canal was, a New York's gung ho governor DeWitt Clinton. ... Clinton wanted to be president, but instead he runs New York for 20 years. Clinton had a vision to make New York rich. ... Douglass made it to New York City and got freedom. ...

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Judge Shira Scheindlin, discovered that the New York Police Department altered to a "policy of indirect racial profiling" (Goldstein, 2013). In the inner-cities the amount of stop and frisk are majority Blacks and Hispanics. New York City police have made it a procedure to stop "Blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white" (Goldstein, 2013). ... In New York police officers use race as a factor in stopping people on the streets, sometimes to scare them. ...

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Dumont of New Paltz, New York. ... When Dumont demanded that she serve another year after New York declared slavery illegal, Sojourner escaped. ... Around 1829 Isabella Van Wagener moved to New York City with her two youngest children, Peter and Sophia. ... In the 1830s Isabella moved to a commune in Ossining, New York, remaining there for five years. She eventually returned to New York City, where she lived quietly and attended the African Zion Church, until 1843, when an inner voice told her to change her name to Sojourner Truth. ...

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Right on time in March 1776, utilizing gun s, Washington ensured Dorchester Heights, exceptionally well charging the city and constraining the British to leave on March 17. He then moved to protect New York City against the joined area and ocean powers of Sir William. In New York, he conferred a military oversight by setting himself in an untenable position in Brooklyn, despite the fact that he spared his armed force by withdrawing from Manhattan into Westchester County and through New Jersey into Pennsylvania. ... He had lost New York City to the British; enrollment was just about up for a ...

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In a 1734 "New York Weekly" article by John Trusly, the lives and hardships of Bermudian slaves is described in vivid detail. ... The third article, written by Leghorn in New-York Weekly Journal in 1748, reads: "In their Passage the Christian Slaves, about two Hundred in Number, enter'd into Design of Revolving" (Leghorn). ... The first slave uprising of eighteenth century occurred in the New York City in 1712. ... Towards the end of the article by New York Weekly Journal, issue XXV, the author states "As private Pique and Resentment is of dangerous consequence in publick ...

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New York and New Jersey resisted acting against slavery initially. But by 1799 in New York and 1804 in New Jersey, the states had enacted gradual emancipation laws. ... Many slaves moved to the city others stayed in the countryside. ...

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New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are all more laid back, more concerned with their own lives than noticing the flaws in others, and a very diverse group of people. ... People preferred the middle colonies to New England, and often stayed close to Philadelphia, which was growing at an incredible rate and New York City, where many men and women struck wealth with little hardship. Philadelphia had residents who did not even own enough land to vote in the city, yet they were rich enough to own the wealthiest homes and send their sons to college in England. ...

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In other words, slavery will be taught differently in South Carolina than it will be in New York. ... The life experiences of minority students, immigrants, middle class white students, students from the city, and students from the suburbs contrast drastically. ... The other side of the argument is that teachers, at least in New York State, are forced to prepare students for the Regents tests that all students must take. ...

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The New York City Slave Rebellion of 1712 occurred after several slaves had a meeting in a tavern. ... As a reaction to the revolt, apprehensive whites in New York quickly passed new stricter and more oppressive laws. ...

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According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, "By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. More than half of the city's population at that time was immigrants and their American-born children." ... A majority of cities were flooded by this intense wave of immigration, increasing the population of immigrants living in America and making it more difficult for politicians and the government to create legislation, making it necessary that the needs of these immigrants be addressed properly. ...

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a gifted poet, author, and lecturer. Her humble beginnings had a profound affect on her thirst for knowledge and justice for the Negro slave. As life and its many challenges unfolded for Harper during the 1800's, she embraced those o...

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Frederick Douglass utilized his speaking ability, intelligence and every ounce of energy he had into fighting for human equality. Frederick Douglass began his life as a common slave but proved to be a phenomenon by breaking free of all boundaries placed upon him. Douglass began voicing his abolition...

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In April, 1775, Dunmore, in a letter to General Gage, indicated the destructive influence that the slave population could have: "that if any injury or insult was offer"d he would declare freedom to the slaves & reduce the City of Williamsburg to ashes." ... Virginians seethed with anger when Lord Dunmore issued his infamous invitation on the York River. ...

• Word Count: 1913
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