_Year_ _Number_ 1664 "very few" 1678 "very few" 1698 King's County, 293. 1703, 5 counties about N. Y. City 1,301. 1712, 5 counties about N. Y. City 1,775. 1723 6,171 1731 7,231 1746 9,717 1774 21,717 1790 21,324 1800 20,903 1810 15,017 1820 10,088 1830 75 1840 4 NEW YORK CITY SLAVES. 1703 801 1712 960 1731 1,571 1737 1,719 1746 2,444 Morgan, _Slavery in New York_, page 38. [2] _New York Emancipation Law--African Repository_, Vol. 31, page 155. [3] _Half a Man_, M. W. Ovington, page 69. [4] _American Convention of Abolition Societies, 1797_, p. 39. [5] _Ibid._, p. 31. [6] _Ibid._, p. 39. [7] _Ibid._, p. 30. [8] _Ibid._, 1803, p. 7. [9] _American Convention of Abolition Societies, 1805_, p. 38. [10] _Ibid._, 1812, p. 7. [11] _American Convention of Abolition Societies_, 1812, p. 14. [12] Inspectors of the New York African Free Schools reported to _The Commercial Advertiser_, May 12, 1824, that "we never beheld a white school of the same age in which without exception there was more order, neatness of dress, and cleanliness of person." [13] _Ibid._ [14] _Journal of Negro History_, Vol. III, p. 354. [15] Woodson, _Education of the Negro Prior to 1861_, p. 286. [16] _Journal of Negro History_, Vol. III. [17] _Hurd's Law of Freedom-Bondage_, p. 81. [18] _African Repository_, September, 1846, p. 278. [19] _Ibid._, 1851, p. 263. [20] _Narrative of Sojourner Truth_, p. 99. [21] _Ibid._, p. 99. [22] Martin Delaney, _Condition of Colored People_, p. 139. [23] _Ibid._, p. 102. [24] _Ibid._, p. 106. [25] Austin Steward, _Condition of Colored People_, p. 102. [26] _Ibid._, p. 102. [27] Austin Steward, _Condition of Colored People_, p. 102. [28] _Ibid._, p. 132. [29] _Seventh Census of the United States._ [30] J. F. Clarke, _Present Condition of People of Color_, p. 14. [31] _Ibid._ [32] _Afro-American Press_, p. 27. DOCUMENTS THE APPEAL OF THE AMERICAN CONVENTION OF ABOLITION SOCIETIES