New York was a ‘dull and dirty’ little town in 1789 — “The Fourteen Miles Round”
2 min readApr 26, 2017
New York was a city without a bathroom
New York was a city without a furnace
New York was a city without an omnibus
New York was a city without a moustache
New York was a city without a match
New York was a city without a latch-key.
Of every hundred inhabitants, seven were slaves.
There were about twenty-three hundred slaves in 1790,
two hundred and fifty in 1820,
and
none when the sun rose (up! up! up! OverMan) on July 4, 1827,
the Empire State’s “emancipation day.”
p.s.
Trust but Verify
p.p.s.
vs
=
y’all [President(s) + OMB + Congress + EEOC + SEC] better start righting
before G-D says, “spirits! put your man (pencils!) down!”
