The New York Manumission Society

One of the founding fathers of our country, John Jay, founded “The New York Society for the Manumission of Slaves and the Protection of such of them as had been or wanted to be Liberated” or the New York Manumission Society, in 1785. Jay also served as its first president. The Society was made up of some of New York’s most wealthy and influential white citizens, who protested the widespread practice of kidnapping black New Yorkers (both slave and free) and selling them as slaves elsewhere. - See more at: http://sixdaystillsunday.com/the-new-york-manumission-society/#stha...