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"A Law for Regulating Negro's & Slaves in the Night Time"

"A Law for Regulating Negro's & Slaves in the Night Time"

The New York Common Council enacted an ordinance providing "that no Negro, Mullato or Indian Slave, shall appear in the Streets of this City, above an hour after Sun-set without a candle and Lanthorn, on penalty of being Whipt at the Publick Whipping Post."

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