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A 1711 city law created a Wall Street market where enslaved people were bought, sold, and rented for half a century.
← Follow the MoneyOn November 30, 1711, New York's Common Council established a public market at the foot of Wall Street where enslaved Africans and Native Americans were traded and hired out until 1762, with the city taxing each transaction, generations before the New York Stock Exchange rose on the same street.
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Wall Street hosted a public slave market for half a century.