Write about 5 parts of the exhibit that stood out to you or made an impression on you

and explain why? When I say parts, this can be a visual, an artifact, an individual
slaves story or document.
Gallery 1 talks about the Atlantic Slave Trade where there were total 12 million
Africans who got captured and became slaves in the Americas. It is believed that this
was the largest forced migration among human history. I was shocked by the given
data, there were average eighty slaves traded per day for four hundred years! The plan
graph which shows how to arrange slaves in a ship really stood me out. In the graph,
all the slaves stand extremely close to each other and there is no gap between them.
The ship on the graph was filled up in whole by slaves. And there were more than
forty thousand of such ships to carry slaves across the sea. I was impressed by the
huge number that slaves had been traded.
In Gallery 2, what stood me out is that slaves did much labor in New Amsterdam
which is the New York nowadays. They built walls, roads, houses and grew crops.
They were the main labor back the time and they almost built everything that New
Amsterdam needed. I do believe that those labors promoted the development of New
Amsterdam. In addition, I was impressed that those African slaves had their halffreedom and they even built free black communities. Even though just a half
freedom, they were on their way to win back their whole freedom.
In gallery 3, I visited a merchants house. I was impressed that those slaves made
important roles in New Amsterdam. The first reason I believe they made important
role back the time was that lots of beautiful and useful household objects were made
by slaves. For example, silver coffee pot, tea can, spoons, and chairs. Those poor
slaves did have money for those good household stuff, while most of those were used
by their labors. Second reason was more merchants, farmers and artisans relied on the
labor of slaves. I believe this is the reason for the number of slaves grew fast after
English started trading goods with New Amsterdam.
In gallery 6, it is said that one third slaves became free by 1790. I was impressed by
the life of those free black New Yorkers after 1783. Blacks and whites living in New
York started to work on being free together. The children of blacks even could attend
school and received education. Black people who had property could vote. I can see
such an improvement of the status of blacks in the society from these changes. I
believe along with more and more blacks got free, the slavery was getting closer to be
abolished.
The last thing stood me out was that the freedom of blacks finally came in 1820s.
Before those blacks got freedom, there were lots of limitation in life, career and many
other field for blacks. I am impressed that those blacks who were well educated
became teachers, publishers, doctors and so on after they got freedom. This indicated
that men were created equally by God. All races of men have equal intelligence, right
and freedom. Without limitation of freedom, blacks can do as well as whites in every
field and they even do better than whites in some specific field. Slave trade and
slavery which violated the law of nature would definitely be abolished and never goes
long.
Africans and African Americans
New York was the capital of American slavery for more than two centuries.
1600 to 1827 it was the time when slavery was legally abolished in New York State.