It was a lovefest for hiking New York’s minimum wage yesterday at a Democratic state Assembly hearing in Harlem, where backers — including an indicted lawmaker — applauded a bill raising it to $8.50 an hour.

City Councilman Larry Seabrook, who is facing retrial this summer on federal money-laundering and fraud charges, even compared the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 to slavery.

“Slavery was ended in 1863,” declared Seabrook, accused of steering $1.2 million in City Council funds to nonprofit groups under his control. “We don’t need people working for slave wages.”

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