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Author Peterson, Carla L., 1944-

Title Black Gotham : a family history of African Americans in Nineteenth-century New York City / Carla L. Peterson.

Publication Info. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.896 P44    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.896073 PE    Check Shelf
Description ix, 446 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-429) and index.
Contents Family, memory, history -- Lower Manhattan, 1795-1865. Collect Street : circa 1819 ; The Mulberry Street School : circa 1828 ; The young graduates : circa 1834 ; A Black aristocracy : circa 1847 ; Whimsy and resistance : circa 1853 ; The Draft Riots : July 1863 ; Union and disunion : circa 1864 -- Brooklyn, 1865-1895. Peter Guignon's private wars : circa 1862 ; Philip White in Brooklyn : circa 1875 ; New women, new men at century's end -- Commemorations.
Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
White, Philip, 1823-1891.
Guigon, Peter, 1813-1885.
Peterson, Carla L., 1944- -- Family.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780300162554 alkaline paper $32.00
0300162553 alkaline paper
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