…y, New York originally consisted of six colonial towns: Brooklyn, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, and New Utrecht. During the 19th Century, as Brooklyn transformed from town to city, it absorbed some of the other towns. Manumission Legal process for enslaved Africans to purchase their own freedom or be emancipated by slaveholder. Mutual Aid Arrangements made between people of a community to assist each other. Propaganda A technique used…