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As he sorted through years of research collected by scouring countless manuscripts and original newspapers, Bronx historian and author Lloyd Ultan made an unexpected discovery — he had accumulated a book’s worth of information about blacks in the colonial Bronx. “I was doing research on the Bronx in general and I happened to come across these things,” said Mr. Ultan, a professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University and Lehman College who has been the borough’s historian since 1996. “I said, well, there’s a book in here.” Representations of slavery and slave-owning culture in the American South abound in the media, but Mr. Ultan’s exploration of a lesser-known side of slavery’s history has yielded a new book, Blacks in the Colonial Bronx. Published by the Bronx County Historical Society, the collection of historical documents, each prefaced with an examination and overview by Mr. Ultan, provides a narrative about the black experience during what Mr. Ultan refers to as a “forma

Slavery wasn’t just a southern phenomenon, Bronxites had slaves | The Riverdale Press | www.riverdalepress.com Skip to main content 75°, Cloudy --> July 22, 2026 Register Log in Facebook Twitter Email us Black History Month Slavery wasn’t just a southern phenomenon, Bronxites had slaves Posted Wednesday, February 26, 2014 5:22 pm By Maya Rajamani As he sorted through years of research collected by scouring countless manuscripts and original newspapers, Bronx historian and author Lloyd Ultan made an unexpected discovery - he had accumulated a book's worth of information about blacks in the

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