Interview Questions

Interview

1.How did slavery in New York start? What year what you say it began?

2.What was the relationship between New York and the South’s economy? How did New York benefit?

3. What kind of labor where slaves forced to do in New York? Where they similar to the South slave labor?

4.What type of role did abolitionists have in Slavery in New York? Would you say they had more power or less power then pro-slavery people?

5.When did slavery in New York become illegal? How did it affect New York?

6) When slavery was abolished in New York, how did the relationship between New York and the South change?

7.Even though slavery became illegal in New York? Were African- American’s still enslaved?

8) With (some) African-Americans free in New York, how did this affect the society of the state? How were free African- Americans treated?

9. Do you think slavery in New York had a huge influence on how huge New York’s economy is today?

10. Do you have any other statements, facts, or advice that you think I could benefit from on completing my project for NHD?