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Rikers Island: A Modern-Day Auction Block in the Heart of New York

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By Darren Mack and Kevin Beckford It affords me inexpressible pleasure, to be enabled to inform the friends of human rights, that the Hon. Richard Riker is no longer Recorder of the city of New York. His power to pollute the bench of justice, by sacrificing human liberty upon the altar of slavery, is no more. — David Ruggles, abolitionist and emancipator, The Colored American, July 1838 In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the fami…
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Rikers Island: A Modern-Day Auction Block in the Heart of New York

By Darren Mack and Kevin Beckford It affords me inexpressible pleasure, to be enabled to inform the friends of human rights, that the Hon. Richard Riker is no longer Recorder of the city of New York. His power to pollute the bench of justice, by sacrificing human liberty upon the altar of slavery, is no more. — David Ruggles, abolitionist and emancipator, The Colored American, July 1838 In the early 1800s, Richard Riker, a descendant of the fami…

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