Slavery In New York

by Ira Berlin

Slavery In New York

  • ISBN-13: 9781565849976
  • Author(s): Ira Berlin
  • Editor(s): Ira Berlin, Leslie Harris
  • Subject: Slavery & abolition of slavery|History
  • Publisher: The New Press
  • Imprint: The New Press
  • Publication Date: 24-11-2005
  • Format: p/b

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The recent discovery of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan reminded Americans that slavery in the United States was not merely a phenomenon of the antebelium South. In fact, for most of its history - fully two centuries - New York was a slave city. For a good proportion of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was the largest slave city on the continent. Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Many Thousands Gone, and Leslie Harris, this ground-breaking work brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery.
About the book

The recent discovery of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan reminded Americans that slavery in the United States was not merely a phenomenon of the antebelium South. In fact, for most of its history - fully two centuries - New York was a slave city. For a good proportion of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was the largest slave city on the continent. Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Many Thousands Gone, and Leslie Harris, this ground-breaking work brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery.