[PDF.11gu] 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

[PDF.eg58] Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810

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 | #1766435 in Books |  University of Georgia Press |  2004-09-01 |  2004-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.80 x6.12l,.94 | File type: PDF | 312 pages

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||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| The best book on a much-neglected subject|By Dragonslayer|It's embarrassing that we Yanks need an Australian to write our history for us, but Shane White does it with humor, insight, and thoroughness. This is unquestionably the best book I have read on the subject of slavery in New York, and I've read all the books there are on the subject. (There aren't many.) White uses pri| ||White has written the most comprehensive account now available of the abolition of slavery in New York City. His most striking findings, however, concern not the process of emancipation but the extent of New York's involvement with slavery in the colonial and

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...

You easily download any file type for your device.Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810   |  Shane White.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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