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President Biden has signed into law a bill creating a public holiday to mark the end of slavery in the United States.聽 It commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to deliver the official order ending slavery in the last rebel state.聽

Vice President Kamala Harris has stated it's important for the US to face up to its history, and in New York, a stealth guerilla campaign, Slavers of New York, has taken off to remind New Yorkers of their own history of slavery: a group of activists has been targeting specific well-known streets and neighbourhoods plastering lampposts, billboards and mailboxes with stickers to let residents know they're named after slave owners. The effort has been applauded by some - but condemned by others as vandalism. 大象传媒 correspondent Tim Brook reports how this project is revealing a side of the New York many had not realised.

Photo: A sign from the Slavers of New York project Credit: Slavers of New York