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Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas

Captive Passage
has been made
possible in part by:
National Endowment for the Humanities
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Col. Philip Livingston, 18th century
Livingston and two of his sons were leaders in New York City's slave trade. Largely in the 1730s and 1740s they amassed a fortune from the importation and sale of enslaved Africans. Livingston made a large donation to Yale College while participating in the slave trade. His donation funded Yale's first endowed professorship.
Frederick Wright, artist
Courtesy of the New York Historical Society

Philip Livingston, 20th century

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