Zohran Mamdani: “We stand together in a house that was built in part by…”

“That story is one that was told here in our city, too, in meeting houses and on street corners and dockyards and on farmland. It is not lost on me that We stand together in a house that was built in part by enslaved labor. Nor do I forget that some of my predecessors centuries ago, had enslaved people working for them themselves. Our city may have been relatively early to outlaw the practice of slavery, but we benefited from that practice, too.” (27:48–27:53)

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