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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.