The website “Slavery in New York” clearly described how slaves were first entered and traded in New York. Slave ship documents and pictures posted in the gallery allowed visitors to have a better sense on realities of slavery and the importance of African Americans to the northern economy.
Chudacoff’s “Social Complexity and Contested Terrain” only revealed the population of slavery in each state, the difference between skilled and unskilled slave workers, and he simplified the relationship between the slaveholders and their bondsmen. The writing did not provide information on the harsh realities and the intensive forced of labor in slavery to the readers. In White’s introduction on “Some what more independent: the end of slavery in NYC” at least acknowledged not only the population of slavery, it also introduced series of questions that have not been satisfactorily answered.
