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At the time of the American Revolution, New York City had a larger population of slaves than any other city in North America except Charleston, South Carolina. New York City and Charleston were not the only maritime cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries whose increasing prosperity was based upon profits from the slave trade and plantation agriculture. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, close to fifty settlements in the British Isles, France, Spain, West Africa, the Caribbean, and South and North America were built as a direct consequence of the slave trade.
full: https://www.salon.com/2017/11/26/how-slave-labor-built-and-financed-major-u-s-cities/
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