Harlem N. Y..

Harlem, New York, The political and cultural center of black America in the 20th century, best known as the major of the literary and artistic ''rennaisance' of the 1920's and the 1930's.

Slaves to the Dutch west india company , Aficans built the first wagon road into Harlem in the 17th century, and in the next 200 years Afican slaves worked the Dutch and then English farms in Harlem. In 1790, 115 slaves were listed for the "Harlem Division,' equal to one third of the population of the area.