Zagazig has large cotton factories and used to have offices of numerous European merchants. It is located on the Muweis Canal and is the chief hub of the corn and cotton trade. There is a museum of antiquities, the Sharkeya National Museum (sometimes called the Amed Orabi Museum, at Herriat Raznah) that contains many important archaeological exhibits (currently closed for restoration). Zagazig University, one of the largest universities in Egypt, is also located in the city, with colleges in different fields of science and arts. The Archaeological Museum of the University of Zagazig exhibits significant finds from the nearby sites, Bubastis
African Americans in New York City is now Central Park of Manhattan and Sandy Ground on Staten Island, and Weeksville in Brooklyn. These communities were among the earliest The city was a nerve center for the abolitionist movement in the United States. At least 120 people were killed in the violence, with eleven African-American men being lynched by Irish immigrants over the course of five days and fifty buildings in predominantly-African areas being burned to the ground. It resulted in the mass migration of African-Americans from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and was followed by the asserting of power in the city by the growing white working class