Margate, England

“In the spring, I got into service with a lady, who saw me at the house where I sometimes worked as a charwoman. This lady's name was Mrs. Forsyth. She had been in the West Indies, and was accustomed to Blacks, and liked them. I was with her six months, and went with her to Margate. She treated me well, and gave me a good character when she left London.”

Harlem is a neighborhood comprising most of northern Manhattan in New York City, New York. Established in 1658 by the Dutch governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, the settlement was originally named "Nieuw Haarlem," or "New Harlem." Many races and ethnic groups have called Harlem home, ranging from the founding Dutch to Germans, Italians, and Jewish populations. It had developed as an agricultural region separate from the rest of the city, when when its agricultural value declined, it officially became part of New York City in 1873.