Professor John McCurdy
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And they will be taken to Nova Scotia, where they're settled there.
And, of course, Nova Scotia is lovely, but also cold and hard to farm.
And, of course, it's out of this...
colony that the colony of Sierra Leone is formed.
Yeah, that's a really good question, which means I have no answer.
Yeah, no, they're interested in men because they want them as soldiers, but I don't know what the guarantee is for women.
I assume these black soldiers or black veterans are bringing wives and children with them.
It would be surprising if they didn't.
Yeah, yeah.
So New York, apparently by the middle of the 18th century, has a reputation for prostitution and sex work.
We seem to find evidence in Boston, Philadelphia.
I mean, any major city that would have a seaport has sailors is going to have and later soldiers is going to have interest.
But yeah, no, New York is.
We have records of reports at Dockside, at the Battery, some women even working on ships, going on ships looking for work.
But yeah, probably the most notorious is a place called the Holy Ground, which if you know New York City today, it would be the area around St.
Paul's Chapel.
And it's called the Holy Ground because Trinity Church, which is the oldest Anglican or now Episcopal church in the city, owns great swaths of Manhattan.
In fact, it still does.
It's the richest congregation in the United States, I believe, because it still owns so much property in Manhattan.
But this was an area that was it's sort of interesting because at the time it's the city's filled in.
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