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Of all the slave in New York, about how many were located on Long Island

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Moss in his 1993 book, “Slavery on Long Island.” In 1698 there were 2,130 blacks in New York, almost all of them slaves, more than in any colony north of Maryland. Almost half of them were on Long Island

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there were 2,130 slaves

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