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How African Americans built the wall that eventually became Wall Street

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African Americans built the wall that became Wall Street, which is now the financial capital of the world. Up until the Civil War and long after slavery in New York was illegal, Wall Street firms profited from the slave trade.

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In 1653, Africans built a wall along the northern edge of New Amsterdam to protect the Dutch community from the English. It stretched from the Hudson River clear across the island to the East River.



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