Slavery - Social Sciences, New York City - History, African American Regional History - Northeastern & Mid-Atlantic States, Slavery & Abolitionism - African American History
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Overview
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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White focuses on the transition from slavery to freedom in New York, which with New Jersey was more reliant on slave labor than any other northern colony. He traces the demographic patterns of the city's slaves and slaveowners, charts the stages of the institution's decline, shows how blacks were perceived by the white society, describes the role of free blacks, and portrays aspects of black retentions in the New World. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
December 1, 1990
Publisher
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1991.
Pages
312
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820312453