Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810

Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810
ISBN-10
0820343625
ISBN-13
9780820343624
Category
History
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2012-03-15
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Shane White

Description

Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources--census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony--to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods. White explores, among many things, the demography of slavery, the decline of the institution during and after the Revolution, racial attitudes, acculturation, and free blacks' "creative adaptation to an often hostile world."

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