i-will-call-you-thiquesawsebawse: jessehimself: themoorhouseproject:Seneca Village existed from 1825
i-will-call-you-thiquesawsebawse: jessehimself: themoorhouseproject:Seneca Village existed from 1825 through 1857. It was located between 82nd and 89th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Today, this area is part of Central Park.Seneca Village was Manhattan’s first significant community of African American property owners. By the 1840s, it had become a multi-ethnic community African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants, and perhaps a few Native Americans. In 1855, the New York State Census reported approximately 264 individuals living in the village. There were three churches, as well as a school and several cemeteries. Within two years, Seneca Village would be razed and its identity erased by the creation of Central Park. http://www.nyhistory.org/seneca/toc.html—Constantly knocked down, destroyed and made to start over. And somehow, we’re still here. I almost dropped my tablet! What the fuck?! I wanna cry…. I’m gonna cry This shits fucked up, I’m sorry to all my African American, Irish, German, and native American followers. I am of Sicilian decent myself, so the struggle of migrating is VERY known to me. Again I apologize. -- source link