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Names of prominent Staten Island slave owners endure on borough street signs
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Staten Island is home to the nation’s oldest free Black settlement still inhabited by descendants of its founders. But before Sandy Ground was founded here in the early 1800s, Staten Island, like many communities throughout the …