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"Land of the Blacks" farms

New Amsterdam seen from the “Land of the Blacks,” an area of farms owned by former enslaved people that is now Greenwich Village. I.N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1408-1909, NYC Municipal Library.

Map displaying farmland owned by former enslaved people. The plots contain the name of the owners.

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