Slavery in New York / edited by Ira Berlin and Leslie Harris.

A history of slavery in New York City is told through contributions by leading historians of African American life in New York and is published to coincide with a major exhibit, in an anthology that demonstrates how slavery shaped the city's everyday experiences and directly impacted its rise t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018, Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Uncovering, discovering, and recovering : digging in New York's slave past beyond the African burial ground / Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris
  • A world of possibilities : slavery and freedom in Dutch New Amsterdam / Christopher Moore
  • The tightening vise : slavery and freedom in British New York / Jill Lepore
  • Liberty and constraint : the limits of revolution / Graham Russell Gao Hodges
  • The long death of slavery / Patrick Rael
  • Black life in freedom : creating a popular culture / Shane White
  • Black life in freedom : creating an elite culture / Carla L. Peterson
  • Black life in freedom : creating a civic culture / Craig Steven Wilder
  • Black abolitionism : the assault on southern slavery and the struggle for racial equality / Manisha Sinha
  • Southern slavery in a free city : economy, politics, and culture / David Quigley
  • Securing freedom : the challenges of Black life in Civil War New York / Iver Bernstein
  • Re-creating Black New York at century's end / Marcy Sacks.