Five Points, 1827 Pictured in 1827, the year that the final abolition of slavery in New York went into effect, New York City's Five Points neighborhood was home to many former black slaves as well as impoverished white immigrants. ["Five Points, 1827," from Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York (New York, 1855).]

From Jim Crow New York: a documentary history of race and citizenship, 1777-1877 by David N. Gellman and David Quigley