In the South
first state to have slaves...Massachusetts
Northern merchants profited from the transatlantic triangle trade of molasses, rum and slaves, and at one point in Colonial America more than 40,000 slaves toiled in bondage in the port cities and on the small farms of the North. In 1740, one-fifth of New York City's population was enslaved
https://www.history.com/news/deeper-roots-of-northern-slavery-unearthed
It all started in the North ...u dumb fuck
The Forgotten Northern Origins of Jim Crow
When you hear the phrase “Jim Crow,” what comes to mind?
The easy answer: The South. No other region of the country bears as much responsibility, as much shame, as the states where slavery and then segregation once flourished and dominated. The most famous images of Jim Crow segregation are indelible, unforgettable: Separate bathrooms. Separate water fountains. Separate schools.
What doesn’t come to mind: The North.
But Jim Crow did not originate in the South. What most of us don’t know — what I didn’t know until I began researching my new book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation — is that the impetus for separating the races was a Northern one . The first reference to a “Jim Crow car” that I could find in a newspaper, aided by the 21st-century power of digitized databases? The Salem Gazette, Oct. 12, 1838, less than six weeks after the new Eastern Rail Road opened for business on thirteen-and-a-half miles of freshly-laid track from East Boston to Salem, Mass.
https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/
Jim Crow also started in the North
