A Staten Island street will soon be named after the last enslaved person born in the borough. NickJCaloway reports.
With help from the chorus at P.S. 22, it was all songs and smiles at the announcement that Livermore Avenue in Port Richmond will soon be co-named Benjamin Prine Way. Prine is considered the last person born into slavery from Staten Island.
Thomas found out just a year ago that Prine, once enslaved and a veteran of the war of 1812, was his great, great, great grandfather - but that was only the beginning. "That was the part that was most disheartening. You come in here, and they're being desecrated over and over and over again. He's not the only one. There are children buried here. There was a church. It was a cemetery. And all that's been obliterated and gone," Thomas said.
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