More enslaved Africans were brought to build New York. Below is a sample of the slave population growing on Long Island.
1712 Kings County 298
New York 970
1771 Kings County 1,162
Queens 2,236
Suffolk 1,452
(Ross, 1903)
The slave Population on Long Island by 1771 was 2,160. This meant that there was one enslaved person for every five white settlers.