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

Publication Info. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2005.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  974.7 SLA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  974.70496 SLA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  974.7 SLAVERY    Check Shelf
Description vi, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 cm
Note "Published in conjuncture with the New-York Historical Society."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-381) and index.
Contents Introduction: uncovering, discovering, and recovering: digging in New York's slave past beyond the African burial ground / Ira Berlin, Leslie M. Harris -- World of possibilities : slavery and freedom in Dutch New Amsterdam / Christopher Moore -- Tightening vise : slavery and freedom in British New York / Jill Lepore -- Liberty and constraint : the limits of revolution / Graham Hodges -- Long death of slavery / Patrick Rael -- Black life in freedom : creating a popular culture / Shane White -- Black life in freedom : creating elite culture / Carla 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 -- Recreating Black New York at century's end / Marcy Sacks.
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
Slavery -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- New York (State) -- New York.
Antislavery movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Free African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
Added Author Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018
Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965-
ISBN 1565849973 paperback
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