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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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.